Liberal MP Dan McTeague’s $224 pizza…..
You know, I have done a fair bit of travelling in my time, and while my destinations don’t generally include stops for lunch in high rent exotic locales, and I don’t expect my elected representatives to pack a George Foreman[tm] grill so they can cook out of their hotel room … I have managed to eat in lower Manhattan, and well, for around $25 bucks.
So, how is it that our politicians manage to rack up meal bills as bloated as this, meal after meal, meeting after meeting? And why do they insist on feeding everyone they talk to?
Doesn’t anyone work in the middle of the friggin’ day like the rest of us?
hat tip – Bourque
Update – McTeague isn’t happy about the attention….
This is something of a personal piss-off for me as well:
http://www.polspy.ca/items/2004/03/07/300.html
I wish he’d take me out sometime!)
Ummm, exchange rate people. Exchange rate. On March 3rd it was 2.44 dollars to the pound.
This means it was a 91.84 pound dinner for three in central London. Not absurd by any means – in fact, pretty reasonable.
Reasonable? Feh. I live in the UK and go out to restaurants a lot, and 30 quid a head, while far from the most expensive around, is definitely not cheap. You can eat out pretty well in the UK for half that. And a liberal MP, who professes to want to help the poor by spending taxpayers’ money on them, should be frugal with that same taxpayers’ money when spending it on himself in order to leave as much for the poor as possible. That’s if he has the courage of his convictions.
aka the “gutbuster”