What a blow to the American taxpayer. It seems Joe Biden, his wife and his family went to the Winter Olympic games in Vancouver. I hadn’t realized that with many Americans out of work he and his family are able to travel so freely on our dime. Most of us who would want to attend any kind of event as big as the Winter Olympics would have to pay for it ourselves. Heck even cabinet members of our illegal President Obama were there as well in Vancouver. I wonder how many other of our leaders in Washington decided to head to Vancouver when they should be staying in our country to solve the problems it now faces?
Obama wasn’t there, but Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, UN Ambassador Susan Rice, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson went to Vancouver to partake in the games. Do the Democrats feel that we’re about to get a large influx of Canadian illegals crossing into the United States or that the Olympic Games is an environmental threat? Perhaps the Office of Veteran Affairs feels that we can cut costs by helping Canadian veterans instead of helping those that have served our country? Does the Office of Health & Human Services feel that they can get an idea on how to help change our healthcare system by studying the athletes during the games? I’m sure those leaders in Washington that took the trip to Vancouver will come up with some excuse as to why the taxpayer should pay for it.
The bottom line,is this, the Democrats loved to complain that when the Republicans were in power that they spent way too much money. Now, the roles are reversed and the Democrats seem to have no problem taking expensive trips on the taxpayer’s dollar. I hope that the citizens of the U.S. will let our leaders in Washington know that our tax dollars aren’t supposed to be used for their family trips. I hope when they get back from the Olympic Games our country’s leaders will pay back every cent used for their travels to the American taxpayer.
While that may be wishful thinking, I’m sure that Biden, his family, and the members of Obama’s cabinet didn’t care too much to hear the market was down again today or that another American has lost their job. Then again, our leaders in Washington don’t have too much sympathy for the people they’re elected to serve that may be facing foreclosure, loss of jobs or any other kind of emergency crisis.
I hope Biden, his family and Obama’s cabinet members will come to realize that by spending our money to take a trip to Canada for the winter games that they’ve ensured that an American citizen will go to bed hungry, a citizen needing medical help that they can’t afford won’t receive it, a soldier serving our country overseas will receive less gear to protect themselves, seniors will receive a little less in their social security check, and that a small business owner might have to close their doors or tell someone they can’t hire them because there isn’t enough money to do so.
Whatever the problem, our reps in Washington simply have no problem living high on the hog at the expense of the American people. I hope you and your family have a nice trip to Vancouver Mr. Biden, just remember to pay us taxpayers back for it.