Anonymous
Post 09/28/2017 21:05     Subject: Re:Tom Price's disgusting behavior
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/352959-price-to-reimburse-taxpayers-for-cost-of-charter-jets

I'm trying to parse out Tom Price's statement that he will reimburse taxpayers for "his seat" on the charter jets. I'm guessing he had at least 10 people with him for each trip. So instead of paying the $300K that his choices to travel on the private plane cost, he'll end up reimbursing the US Government $30K? That's being really cheap given that the other 9 people could have flown commercial were it not for his expensive tastes.


I love the statement that he's "taking the unprecedented step of reimbursing the government." Forgetting that the unprecedented step was the private jet for government business.

And these are only the unprecedented steps we know about. He's obviously comfortable bilking the taxpayers he works for. Personal net worth of $8 million and all that.


He's not actually reimbursing for the flights, just a seat on the plane at business class rates.


But his wife flew with him. Shouldn't it be two seats? What's worse - the accompanying staff/hoi polloi had to fly commercial.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2017 20:28     Subject: Re:Tom Price's disgusting behavior
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/352959-price-to-reimburse-taxpayers-for-cost-of-charter-jets

I'm trying to parse out Tom Price's statement that he will reimburse taxpayers for "his seat" on the charter jets. I'm guessing he had at least 10 people with him for each trip. So instead of paying the $300K that his choices to travel on the private plane cost, he'll end up reimbursing the US Government $30K? That's being really cheap given that the other 9 people could have flown commercial were it not for his expensive tastes.


I love the statement that he's "taking the unprecedented step of reimbursing the government." Forgetting that the unprecedented step was the private jet for government business.

And these are only the unprecedented steps we know about. He's obviously comfortable bilking the taxpayers he works for. Personal net worth of $8 million and all that.


He's not actually reimbursing for the flights, just a seat on the plane at business class rates.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2017 20:28     Subject: Tom Price's disgusting behavior
Anonymous wrote:It's up to $1M now. This guy sure knows how to enjoy our money!!


$1M is chump change to all the Goldman Sachs types in this administration. Let the guy live a little.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2017 20:25     Subject: Tom Price's disgusting behavior
Anonymous wrote:Hey Republicans! You know those "elitists" you are always talking about? This is what actual elitists look like. Don't even know it's wrong to charter planes on the government's dime.


Exactly.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2017 20:22     Subject: Tom Price's disgusting behavior
It's up to $1M now. This guy sure knows how to enjoy our money!!
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2017 20:07     Subject: Tom Price's disgusting behavior
Hey Republicans! You know those "elitists" you are always talking about? This is what actual elitists look like. Don't even know it's wrong to charter planes on the government's dime.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2017 19:59     Subject: Tom Price's disgusting behavior
Price, Gary Cohn, and Kushner should be fired immediately. Trump only cares about ONE THING: getting rid of estate tax, which will net his kids BILLIONS of dollars.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2017 19:56     Subject: Re:Tom Price's disgusting behavior
Anonymous wrote:Do you remember that scandalous GSA conference back in 2010 where the GSA spent $800,000 for a lavish conference for hundreds of GSA employees. The people who organized that conference got into trouble as they should have and Congress decided that they would cut back on government travel expenditures. This was well-intentioned but it also made it difficult for govt workers to attend professional and academic conferences. The impact on govt researchers in particular was very deleterious.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clampdown-after-gsa-scandal-puts-some-federal-workers-in-a-pinch/2015/02/08/d8217240-a5a4-11e4-a7c2-03d37af98440_story.html?utm_term=.beb3a56c431e

Then there was the sequester and govt budget cuts which further cut travel budgets. I remember reading stories about FBI field agents having to buy their own gas.

It is so egregious to think that Sec. Price can get away with this without any major consequences. I bet if he was still in Congress he would be pillorying a govt worker who did somedthing similar.


In my years and years at HHS, through multiple adminstrations, I:
Never traveled
Never got training approved
Went to one conference, local
Was part of a water club to get access to filtered water (humphrey's pipes had lead)
Bought all my own office supplies, including, during a bad period, copy paper, and also bought supplies for my RAs who were GS7s
Bought tampons and maxipads for the bathroom
Bought my own office chair

He is a disgusting, amoral man, who is surrounded by HHS staff struggling to do the right thing. Despicable.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2017 19:22     Subject: Re:Tom Price's disgusting behavior
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In a normal administration, he would be fired. I can't believe he's only paying back a fraction of the plane costs.

In a normal administration he would never have taken private planes on the taxpayer's dime just to have lunch with his son.


Gotta say, I don't think Price is the first. But he validly got caught since he took so many expensive trips. Shame on him.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2017 19:17     Subject: Re:Tom Price's disgusting behavior
Anonymous wrote:In a normal administration, he would be fired. I can't believe he's only paying back a fraction of the plane costs.

In a normal administration he would never have taken private planes on the taxpayer's dime just to have lunch with his son.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2017 19:06     Subject: Tom Price's disgusting behavior
He has no place as Secretary. Sorry he's an orthopedic surgeon and out of touch with the health care needs of the majority of the population. Should have gone with a primary care physician
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2017 18:57     Subject: Tom Price's disgusting behavior
Tom Price MD is a disappointment for thinking, contrary to most physicians who took the Hippocratic Oath, that he is better than us.

-A retired physician
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2017 18:21     Subject: Re:Tom Price's disgusting behavior
Anonymous wrote:Do you remember that scandalous GSA conference back in 2010 where the GSA spent $800,000 for a lavish conference for hundreds of GSA employees. The people who organized that conference got into trouble as they should have and Congress decided that they would cut back on government travel expenditures. This was well-intentioned but it also made it difficult for govt workers to attend professional and academic conferences. The impact on govt researchers in particular was very deleterious.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clampdown-after-gsa-scandal-puts-some-federal-workers-in-a-pinch/2015/02/08/d8217240-a5a4-11e4-a7c2-03d37af98440_story.html?utm_term=.beb3a56c431e

Then there was the sequester and govt budget cuts which further cut travel budgets. I remember reading stories about FBI field agents having to buy their own gas.

It is so egregious to think that Sec. Price can get away with this without any major consequences. I bet if he was still in Congress he would be pillorying a govt worker who did something similar.


He would be on camera fundraising for his seat over it.

Sometimes I think Trump wanted to expose Republicans for the charlatans they are. As only a charlatan could do it.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2017 18:14     Subject: Re:Tom Price's disgusting behavior
Do you remember that scandalous GSA conference back in 2010 where the GSA spent $800,000 for a lavish conference for hundreds of GSA employees. The people who organized that conference got into trouble as they should have and Congress decided that they would cut back on government travel expenditures. This was well-intentioned but it also made it difficult for govt workers to attend professional and academic conferences. The impact on govt researchers in particular was very deleterious.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clampdown-after-gsa-scandal-puts-some-federal-workers-in-a-pinch/2015/02/08/d8217240-a5a4-11e4-a7c2-03d37af98440_story.html?utm_term=.beb3a56c431e

Then there was the sequester and govt budget cuts which further cut travel budgets. I remember reading stories about FBI field agents having to buy their own gas.

It is so egregious to think that Sec. Price can get away with this without any major consequences. I bet if he was still in Congress he would be pillorying a govt worker who did something similar.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2017 18:11     Subject: Re:Tom Price's disgusting behavior
Anonymous wrote:http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/352959-price-to-reimburse-taxpayers-for-cost-of-charter-jets

I'm trying to parse out Tom Price's statement that he will reimburse taxpayers for "his seat" on the charter jets. I'm guessing he had at least 10 people with him for each trip. So instead of paying the $300K that his choices to travel on the private plane cost, he'll end up reimbursing the US Government $30K? That's being really cheap given that the other 9 people could have flown commercial were it not for his expensive tastes.


I love the statement that he's "taking the unprecedented step of reimbursing the government." Forgetting that the unprecedented step was the private jet for government business.

And these are only the unprecedented steps we know about. He's obviously comfortable bilking the taxpayers he works for. Personal net worth of $8 million and all that.