
As a result of a
Judicial Watch filing under the Freedom of Information Act, the USAF released
documents detailing House Speaker Pelosi's use of United States Air Force
aircraft between March 2009 and June 2010. The data are published in the
Judicial Watch Verdict of December 2010, Volume 16, Issue 12.
Here
are the main highlights revealed by the USAF. Keep in mind that all the data
below relate to United States Air Force aircraft used by one woman over a
sixteen month period.
Several of these flights included Ms Pelosi's
guests such as grown children, grandchildren, various in-laws, friends, and
hangers-on. Over 95% of the trips were between the west coast and Washington ,
DC or what we might call a commute between home and the office. READ it and
WEEP!!
Total trips: 85 trips over a 68 week period or 1.25 average trips
per week.
Total mileage: 206,264 miles or 2,427 average miles per
trip
Total flying time: 428.6 hours or an average of 5 hrs per trip
Cost
to the taxpayers: $2,100,744.59 or $27,715.00 per trip or $1,285,162.00 per
year
Cost of in flight food and alcohol: $101,429.14 or $1,193.00 per trip or
$62,051.00 per year.
On one junket to Baghdad, according to the Air Force
report, she had the aircraft bar stocked with Johnny Walker Red Scotch, Grey
Goose Vodka, E&J Brandy, Bailey's Irish Creme, Maker's Mark Whiskey,
Courvoisier Cognac, Bacardi Rum, Jim Beam Whiskey, Beefeater Gin, Dewars Scotch,
Bombay Sapphire Gin, Jack Daniels Whiskey, Corona Beer and several varieties of
wine. This was obviously a very important"gubment
bidness" trip.
Evidence generally speaks for itself, and in Ms.
Pelosi's case it speaks the language of abuse and (evidently) a serious
familial drinking problem, for in a single year she and her spawn drank an
amount in excess of the net income of the average employed American! When she
said, "... If the stimulus doesn't pass, five hundred million people might lose
their jobs...", I thought she was unintentionally revealing her ignorance.
I'm now more inclined to think she was pickled.
Even though she can no
longer abuse the USAF, she can either fly on her broom, or fly Southwest Airlines, where bags fly
free.
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