Chris Christie’s Foreign Trips Cost Taxpayers over $120,000:

All on the taxpayers dime.

Recently Christie took three trips that cost the taxpayers of The Garden State a total of $ 123,893.04. The most expensive trip was to the UK in February, costing taxpayers $62,653.19. These figures were submitted by his office not contrived.  A trip to Canada in early December 2014 cost taxpayers $29,800, while a trip to Mexico that September cost $21,822.06.

There doesn’t seem to be a direct consensus of opinion as to what politicians can or can not consider a business trip.

I am sure they stay in the best hotels and chow down in the swankiest restaurants. We wouldn’t expect them live in any less of a style than they have been accustomed to.

The tab covered security, transportation costs, which includes state troopers’ airfare and hotel costs, but not their salaries.

Along for the rides was Christie’s personal photographer Tim Larsen whose expenses came to 10’s of thousands of dollars. God forbid any politician would go anywhere without the shutter bug close behind.

If these pampered politicians were paying the tab out of their own pockets they would be staying at Tom Bodett’s place Motel 6 and eating at the Golden Arches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SdgOevV5kY

According to records, these trips were put together by Choose New Jersey, a non-profit state economic development group funded by corporate donations, which aims to promote investment and job creation in the state. It would be interesting to see just how profitable the trip was for the State of New Jersey.

I really surprises me that in this day and age of electronics that more politicians don’t use that method of communications rather than gouging the taxpayers with these costly business trips. I guess the answer is; if they did it electronically, they may have to buy their own dinners.

I would have an entirely different perspective on these abusers of taxpayers money if the governing bodies were debt free and could afford to send their honchos’ on these supposed business trips. We all know that the business trips amount to maybe 10% business and 90% personal entertainment. That can even be stretching it.

I was brought up in the old days when our motto was; if you can afford it you don’t buy it. 

http://www.statedatalab.org/state_data_and_comparisons/detail/new-jersey

The article is a couple years old in 2013 but I am sure that the State is worse off now than when this was put together.

Christie is not the only politician that squanders taxpayers money; they all do without shame.

It is no wonder that so many people have chosen the political path in life. Once their foot is in the door they have a free meal ticket for the rest of their life.