As the debate over whether to raise the debt ceiling ensues, and as you contemplate the nearly $15 trillion we owe, and the devastating impact out-of-control spending and borrowing has on economic growth and prosperity, remember that this is how our tax dollars are being spent.
From ABC News:
A $1.2 million federal highway program that sent employees on a 17-day globe-trotting journey to photograph different billboards was suspended Tuesday — an announcement that came after ABC News alerted the U.S. Department of Transportation that it planned to air a report on the program.
And what did the bureaucrats do on this trip?
Photos from the trip obtained by ABC News show some of the 12-member delegation toasting with wine glasses in Australia and driving the tulip-lined highways of Holland. Travel records show the group secured luxury accommodations and ate well. In Melbourne, that meant dining along the waterfront at the pricey Scusami Italian Restaurant; in Brisbane, the LAB Restaurant; in Stockholm, the five-star Fem Sma House.
The cost of the 17-day trip for bureaucrats to study billboards? Roughly $300,000, according to estimates the administration provided to Congress. (Transportation officials said roughly $40,000 of that covered the expenses of the three federal workers on the trip.)
Absolutely outrageous. Remember it when you hear the inevitable calls for tax hikes.
