Imagine that you had a job that paid $230,000 and also provided you with a lavish house, body guards, office space, free travel, free medical care, unlimited vacation and many other perks. Sounds pretty good, huh? For that kind of job, you must have to work really hard, don't you think? Well suppose you learned that you really had only one chore that was yours to do, and that you did not have to actually do that work unless you really wanted to do so. In a nutshell, that is the description of the office of Vice President of the United States. Vice president Biden's only responsibility is to preside over the Senate, and he does that only once or twice a year. The rest of the time, he is pretty much free to do what he wants.
Right now, we are in the midst of the "terrible" crisis caused by sequestration. Both Biden and president Obama have told all Americans how the slowing in the growth of federal spending (there are no cuts) will lead to all sorts of calamities across the land. Everyone is being squeezed, they tell us. Everyone, of course, except them. Biden and his wife are on a gold vacation today in South Carolina. It is his third vacation of 2013, following a trip to the Virgin Islands in January and a ski vacation in Colorado in February. Each trip cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars beyond the paltry amount that Biden reimburses the government for his hotel room, etc. So far in just the first three months of 2013, taxpayers have spent something close to three quarters of a million dollars on Biden's vacations alone.
Given that Biden really has no responsibilities and that he gets a beautiful house in Washington where he lives, why does he need all these vacations? Furthermore, in the middle of this "crisis" of the sequestration cuts, why is Biden spending and spending at the same time that ordinary people are supposedly being squeezed?
Right now, we are in the midst of the "terrible" crisis caused by sequestration. Both Biden and president Obama have told all Americans how the slowing in the growth of federal spending (there are no cuts) will lead to all sorts of calamities across the land. Everyone is being squeezed, they tell us. Everyone, of course, except them. Biden and his wife are on a gold vacation today in South Carolina. It is his third vacation of 2013, following a trip to the Virgin Islands in January and a ski vacation in Colorado in February. Each trip cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars beyond the paltry amount that Biden reimburses the government for his hotel room, etc. So far in just the first three months of 2013, taxpayers have spent something close to three quarters of a million dollars on Biden's vacations alone.
Given that Biden really has no responsibilities and that he gets a beautiful house in Washington where he lives, why does he need all these vacations? Furthermore, in the middle of this "crisis" of the sequestration cuts, why is Biden spending and spending at the same time that ordinary people are supposedly being squeezed?
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