With an oink, oink here and an oink oink there (D.C.) “THIS LITTLE PIGGIE WENT TO PARIS …”

Congress’s Travel Tab Swells

Spending on Taxpayer-Funded Trips Rises Tenfold; From Italy to the Galápagos

WASHINGTON — Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galápagos Islands.

The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That’s a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago.

SUCH CORRUPTION (YES, IT IS CORRUPTION) ALMOST BROUGHT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UK LAST MONTH.  LUCKY FOR CONGRESS THE AMERICAN MEDIA IS RUNNING INTERFERENCE FOR THEM — SINCE THE CORRUPTION COMES FROM THE LEFT AND BOUGHT-AND-SOLD MIDDLE.

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