They Fly First Class - John Stossel

They Fly First Class - John Stossel: "The Securities and Exchange Commission, for example, frequently sent employees overseas on first- or business-class airplane tickets that cost taxpayers up to $10,000 each..."

"Certainly the scolds at the Environmental Protection Agency wouldn't allow any kind of wasteful travel.

(EPA) Employees faced with supervisors who rejected travel requests could manipulate the electronic system to, in effect, approve their own travel. Because the agency's leadership did not bother to review travel spending, the requests were processed automatically.

Sweet. And why should the EPA's leadership review their staffers' travel spending? It's not their money; the money came from the suckers, er, taxpayers, many of whom ride buses and subways to work and skip vacations to save a few bucks."