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

Mmmmmmm! Corndogs!ā€œI don’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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Couldn’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. Let’s be clear – they are all afraid of us – 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 – and let her pay for her fucking protection her damned self.

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If they weren’t so wretched they wouldn’t need so damn much protection.

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DeVos’ brother is the President and CEO of Blackwater…o you think he is getting a little government subsidy from little sis in the Trump cabinet. No conflict of interest here…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 guns…they get to hide behind their chain linked and guarded compounds while the commoner’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. That’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 can’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 sacrifice’ for the country BUT cost the taxpayers millions because…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 students’ 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. That’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 People’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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