Letter to the Editor: Government spending on travel, bullets a big concern

Sequester. What Sequester? For two months we have heard nothing but how bad it is going to be, people will starve, people will die, schools will close, and any horrible thing you can think of. That’s all you heard from the President, the Vise President and their lap dogs in the media. Once again it was, “Do as I say, not as I do.”

On a couple of recent trips overseas Vice President Biden and his entourage of 136 people stayed in a hotel in Paris for one night at a cost to the U.S. taxpayer of $585,000.50. In London for one night he spent $459,388.65 of taxpayer money.

But wait, there’s more. President Obama went to Israel and Jordan with a entourage of 600 people. We will probably never know what that cost, but it will be be more than what most people make in 10 lifetimes. Beside these expenses, he was handing out millions of dollars to Jordan and the Muslin Brotherhood in Egypt. The sad part of it all, none of this accomplished anything. A whole bunch of bureaucrats took a vacation at tax payers expense. No wonder the country is 17 trillion dollars in the hole, when you have a bunch of power-hungry parasites spending taxpayer money like crazy. The sequester cuts spending by one percent. How much of a cut is that if you plan to spend more than 3.6 trillion dollars this year.

But wait, there’s even more. Homeland Security recently purchased more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. That’s enough ammo to make a war like the Iraq war for 24 years. Homeland Security, when asked about the purchase, refused to answer. The Homeland Security ammo buy is not the first time government bullet purchases have sparked concerns. The same thing happened last year when the Social Security Administration posted a notice that it was buying 174,000 hollow point bullets. What have they planned for this country? Get rid everyone that doesn’t agree with them?

Yes, this bunch of hypocrites really care for you. Everything they say and do is a lie. Remember the one that your health-care premiums would be $2,500 less per year with Obamacare? That was a good one. I bet they even believed it, for if you tell a lie long enough, you start believing it. As someone said, “If you think your health care is expensive now, wait till it’s free.”

Joe Wollman

Odessa