The blog comment over “A good steward... when caught” talk about how business trips actually costing much more money than they should. This is happening particularly in the Dallas Forth Worth International Airport, where officials there are taking advantage and spending money over unnecessary things. Many of these trips are in the united states, yet the money spent on dinners, 5-star hotels and drinks are extremely outrageous. One example of a ‘business trip’ that ended up being too expensive was a trip to Paris which ended up costing over $68,000. This dilemma got to the extreme when one of the public officials that was responsible for oversight and accountability ended up getting three bottles of wine for $1,500 each at a $7,300 dinner. He ended up reimbursing the money only because he was informed that there would be a investigation. This is a good example on how the people are not informed on what happens to their money. I’m pretty sure that no individual would like to be paying off a thousand dollar meal and covering the bar tips for these ‘business trips.’ The editor is trying to get this message across to all the people, since all citizens are affect by what our state officials do. What is worse is that the officials do not care about the money being spent as long as it doesn’t come from their pocket, or so the editor says. I do think that this is credible argument, although there still maybe questions on the actual prices being spent on these business trips. It might be a bit to hard to actually find the correct prices and facts about this information. Although I do believe that many people might not have a huge problem believing this. Its a well known fact that the people are always the ones that end up paying for everything and those that are ‘serving’ us are the ones that get to enjoy.
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