Discussion: DeVos' Security Detail Could Cost $6.5 Million In Next Year

Mmmmmmm! Corndogs!ā€œI donā€™t wannabe protected from that.ā€

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Yabut Yabut
She uses here own plane!
The fleecing of America
Professional Grifter Edition

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Couldnā€™t her brother supply some cheap goons ?

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She fears because the majority of the country does not support her policies or those of her patron trump. He is illegitimate and thus so are his appointees. Letā€™s be clear ā€“ they are all afraid of us ā€“ we the people who have had our democracy stolen and have had these insane ideologues imposed upon us. Let her wake up everyday shitting her pants in fear ā€“ and let her pay for her fucking protection her damned self.

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If they werenā€™t so wretched they wouldnā€™t need so damn much protection.

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DeVosā€™ brother is the President and CEO of Blackwaterā€¦o you think he is getting a little government subsidy from little sis in the Trump cabinet. No conflict of interest hereā€¦nah.

McConnell and Ryan are doing a heck of job on oversight of the Trump administration - NOT!

No other administration since Reagan and Cheney-Bush have been so focussed on securing their own safety while leaving the rest of America to deal with all these guns on our streets.

The rich love gunsā€¦they get to hide behind their chain linked and guarded compounds while the commonerā€™s are dying at a rate of 35,000 plus per year from guns!

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If I read this right, previous secretaries have used department employees for security details, and those employees are still employed, just doing other things. So, the $6.5 million she is spending on Marshal Service employees is entirely over and above what previous secretaries spent on security. Thatā€™s some great fiscal responsibility, right there.

Also too, why are these people so fearful?

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She pays for her own air travel; why canā€™t she pay for her security detail above and beyond the standard for a cabinet secretary?

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ā€œA Government of the People, by the People, for the Peopleā€.

Well, so much for that. Now we have a Government mooching from the People, for only the rich People, contemptuous of most of the People.

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Paranoid much? So they ā€˜self sacrificeā€™ for the country BUT cost the taxpayers millions becauseā€¦sacrifice?

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Frankly, I wish TPM would write about the billions DeVos wants to take from after-school programs, teacher training, and disabled studentsā€™ support than about a few million spent on security.

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Well its a small price to pay to keep this poor billionaire protected from the words and opinions of the hoi polloi.

Wait, did I say small price? I meant, exorbitant and ridiculous.

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Hey but she pays for her planes so no biggie!

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Headline is a little misleading. Thatā€™s $6.5 million MORE than what is already provided by her Department, which has its own security staff already.

It seems more and more, that his entire Cabinet is engaged in a game to see who can spend the most OPM. (Other Peopleā€™s Money)

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Why, dear Lord, why?

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Why?

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$6 Million of which will go into her off shore bank account .

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They are afraid that ordinary citizens want to harm them for their having wasted our money on excessive security details.

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Nope. Her Bro only provides super-expensive goons to the State department and the DoD, also to whatever Gulf Sheik that can pay.

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