Of course Tom Price shouldn't have to fly coach! (satire)

[ehrnst]

Sure, a train would have gotten him there nearly as quickly. But we can’t have the nation’s top health official risking an unhygienic Amtrak bathroom.

Now, Politico is reporting that Price took a government-funded private jet to a resort in Georgia where he owns land, and to Nashville, where his son lives. As if there’s something wrong with this.

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It’s impossible for Price to fly commercial, because that could expose him to the unwashed masses — and nobody wants a repeat of what happened in West Virginia when a reporter had to be arrested for asking Price a question. Also, as one of the lower net-worth individuals in President Trump’s Cabinet (only $14 million, so little he can’t afford to dye his eyebrows gray to match the rest of his hair), Price needs the subsidized travel, just as he needed to enhance his meager congressional pay by trading stocks of health-care companies that had interests in legislation he pushed.

The persecution of Trump officials by the media does not stop with Price. They carp about Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin trying to use a government plane for his European honeymoon and flying on a government plane with his wife to Kentucky on solar-eclipse day. They natter about EPA chief Scott Pruitt securing round-the-clock security for himself as he shrinks the rest of the agency and having a $25,000 soundproof booth built in his office. (The noise of fired bureaucrats cleaning out desks can be quite distracting.) They moan about Trump officials using their offices to promote Ivanka Trump’s shoes and Mnuchin’s “Lego Batman” movie. They whine about the hundreds of millions of dollars being paid to Trump properties by foreign countries, the Pentagon, the Secret Service and more.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-it-really-ethical-to-expect-tom-price-to-fly-coach/2017/09/27/f880e120-a3ca-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html?utm_term=.e31877812f2f

[riversedge]

1. "The persecution of Trump officials by the media" oh my. OMO-they should be made to bear

a cross up a big hill!!

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. This shit should have never happened in the first place.

Nobody is in control of those bastards.

[catrose]

3. Please tell me it was sarcasm

[ehrnst]

4. Yes.

I thought the part about him not having enough money to dye his eyebrows to match his hair would have made that clear, but I'll indicate it in the header.

[Gothmog]

5. I do not accept Price's lame apology

[madamesilverspurs]

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