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Old 01-26-2009, 05:56 PM   #21
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Paint me "Not surprised" that some people missed the point and focussed on the joke. Therefore I will repeat the point of the threaed....

2 people spent 40,000 dollars on first class tickets ALONE. This extravagance on public money and completely unnecessary. They were NOT trying to get medical supplies or whatever to the poor and needy of Africa....

They were attending a conference having a party.
Not sure where you get two people from, the article says three (the head of the agency and two senior staff at approximately 13,000 each), and given Rathji's research, the numbers don't seem that out of line. Again, it seems like a real non-story, despite the rhetoric of the article.
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