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2018-12-06 Government

Bush funeral could set taxpayers back a half-billion dollars

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-06 00:49|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Certainly needs looking into. No disrespected intended. For you and me $255.

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-06 01:00|| 2018-12-06 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes.

Bush funeral - not a problem, per MSM
Obama travel - not a problem, per MSM
Trump travel - a problem, per MSM
Medicare for all (every dime you have) - not a problem, per MSM

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-12-06 04:58|| 2018-12-06 04:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Different but related: Has Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Industry balanced out costs to the Republic of Kennedy Assassination?

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-12-06 05:04|| 2018-12-06 05:04|| Front Page Top

#4 "lost productivity for federal workers"

Ummmm

Posted by European Conservative 2018-12-06 06:09|| 2018-12-06 06:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Presidential funeral train will be first in nearly 50 years

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-06 07:10|| 2018-12-06 07:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Nearly all the cost is the day off for the feds and posties. The rest is chump change and media spew.

Posted by Bobby 2018-12-06 08:36|| 2018-12-06 08:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Funny how Federal spending's been noticed and scrutinized by the MSM over the past two years and not the previous eight...

Posted by Raj 2018-12-06 08:46|| 2018-12-06 08:46|| Front Page Top

#8 If Leonard Nemoy had been a lifelong government worker of the elite caste when he died, they would have placed his body on ice, sent it aboard the Enterprise, and sailed around the world at ~~flank~~ warp speed.

Marking the day, remembering an era, I get that. This adoration, out wailing the previous adoration, I find embarrassing. Especially for that late merely senator who was for whatever reason akin Liam Neeson being picked as an action hero, had set the bar of wailing.

Public viewing? I hear some sort of whistlestop tour? Leave the man some dignity.

Posted by swksvolFF 2018-12-06 12:45|| 2018-12-06 12:45|| Front Page Top

#9 As Limbaugh said, liberals love conservatives after they are dead.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-12-06 22:27|| 2018-12-06 22:27|| Front Page Top

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