State dinners costing the American taxpayers $4700/ diner and Las Vegas
party/orgies costing up to nearly a million dollars are not appropriate usage
of taxpayer funds during this recession-besieged economy.
But despite the Obama promises to rein in wasteful government spending,
the profligate behavior continues on all fronts.
Congressman Darrell Issa ( California ) has called for an investigation of the
wasteful spending by this administration and their mnions.
"The Examiner reported on Oct. 26 that a May 2010 Obama state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón cost nearly $1 million, or $4,700 per attendee. Three other Obama state dinners since 2009 cost half a million or more, according to official documents cited by the newspaper.
A special concert stage was erected in a massive walled tent on the South Lawn where singer Beyoncé entertained guests for the Calderon dinner. Private trolleys ferried guests from the White House to the tent, and a celebrity chef was brought in from Chicago to prepare a special menu for the event.
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Such spending "creates the appearance that the White House and State Department are not planning and executing state dinners responsibly," Issa said in the letter.
The House panel began investigating wasteful federal spending earlier this year when it was learned that General Services Administration employees partied for five days at a Las Vegas conference that cost $823,000"
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link to washingtonexaminer.com]
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