How Rich Folks Stay Rich

They’re cheap, and get other people to pick up the tab for as much as possible, so they won’t have to spend their own money, even if they have more of it than they can spend in three lifetimes. That applies to Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat senator who lives 60 miles from DC, and one of the richest people in the land. He travels by private plane (at $4,400.00 per trip, to go what is a trip BARELY long enough to get the wheels off the ground). But you can bet he has his Pina Colada while sitting in his “easy chair” for the less than an hour they’re in the air. A similar trip on a commercial airline would cost $206.00 on a commercial airline, but he’s “too good” for that. This wouldn’t be too bad, if he were the only Senator who did it. But I sincerely doubt it. Many Senators do something similar, and the taxpayers are the ones who “pick up the tab” for these excesses. Nancy Pelosi, for instance, not only does that, she books private planes for the rest of her family to travel on, too. And who pays for it? We do, of course. And they think it’s “their due.” (Tea Party)