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"Look, when an official goes and works for the government, they're not working for the private sector. And they shouldn't expect to be able to enjoy all of the benefits that some private-sector executives experience. Might that suck? Maybe. But it's not their money. It's our money."
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Here is where I get confused. If the CEO of Exxon gouges you at the pumps and then uses that money to fly himself first class to a conference, he is not "spending YOUR money"? But if you pay taxes for such things as police services and at a police chiefs meeting they order bagels, then it is "wasting your money"? In either situation money is coming from your pocket to pay for a product and/or service only to be wasted frivilously.
Am I upset with the waste described above? Absolutely. Hell, the ONLY flight the government has ever paid for me, I flew stand-by. However, I just don't get the difference in "wasting your money". I mean, those AIG mangers that took that golf vacation - their excuse was that they had been planning on paying for it off their investors dime rather than the taxpayers dime. Makes no difference to me. I'm equally appalled that people would think it okay to go on a golf vacation on ANYBODY'S dime but their own.