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Originally Posted by Cletus Miller
It's sort of standard.
Do note that this is also a *HUGE* trade mission, with the CEOs of Boeing and Honeywell(? Cat?), various other biz people and their staffs along for the trip. The entourage is not all traveling on the federal dime--tho I'm sure the F-50 CEOs are flying with the Prez.
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I know a couple of people on the trip - both paying for themselves, both traveling with their wife. One has no staff members, the other has three management team members (CEO, COO and CSO). Both have businesses with both US and Indian operations and will be making decisions affecting where to put a healthy number of new jobs in the coming year.
Still, I am sure that while they are over there, the Government will spend a million gajillion dollars on them by inviting them to a couple of meals and giving them some bus rides. And that's a million gajillion dollars A DAY. Can you believe it? Millions of gajilions of dollars just to try to get a few lousy jobs for Americans. If we just extended the Bush tax cuts for them instead, they'd be hiring every Tom, Dick and Hari they could find.
