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Question

Pols and spending

Feb 28, 2018 5:27PM PST

What is it about pols and admin types who get elected to or appointed to some position and given an unlimited credit card that they have to spend it?

Who's paying for Carson's 5k chair?

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I thought a close aide said nothing was wrong.
Feb 28, 2018 10:27PM PST

Oh, wait. That was a lie. Guess I don't have an answer after all.

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Although I don't like the
Mar 1, 2018 3:37AM PST

frivolous spending and believe he should pay it all back out his own pocket, it hardly compares to what Pelosi was spending taking military jets back and forth from DC to San Francisco for years........and, I'm not sure who everyone is in Trump's administration that agreed to NOT take a paycheck while they serve under him.

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Most recent Presidents and their aides
Mar 3, 2018 3:19PM PST

could afford to do that at least partially. I've wondered why the only one AFAIK to do that is the one who seems [by his actions] to have no sympathies for the plight of the downtrodden. Good on 'im.

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I hope you aren't talking about Trump
Mar 3, 2018 4:50PM PST

because if you are, then you certainly haven't bothered to learn anything about him and his charitable history that DOESN'T show up on tax returns.....such as donating his plane and all expenses paid for a cancer patient (a little boy) and his parents to get treatments that were out of his State.

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So the fact that
Mar 4, 2018 3:24AM PST

the sick boy's father turned out to be CHARGED (was he CONVICTED?) with a crime nearly 30 years later erases the fact that Trump HELPED the boy out of the goodness of his heart? He's done many more kindnesses in his life than just this one instance, JP, that he doesn't get credit for. When was the last time the LIAR or BO made such a gesture? The Clinton Foundation collected millions for Haiti and its crisis and (oh my, another scandal for them) didn't help them at all with that money even though she bragged about all the good her foundation did.

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RE:with a crime nearly 30 years later
Mar 4, 2018 4:01AM PST

30 years LATER?....AND he'd been doing it for 30 years?

NOW you don't want to talk about the PAST?

tsk, tsk, tsk.

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RE:turned out to be CHARGED (was he CONVICTED?)
Mar 4, 2018 4:13AM PST

Has Clinton been CHARGED? (was she CONVICTED?)

Has Obama been CHARGED? (was he CONVICTED?)

YOU have NO problem convicting them....

Welcome to TONI's world?