John T wrote:
"gatt" wrote in message

Cheney's entourage includes a C-17 Globemaster

More to the point, the Vice President's entourage includes a plane to
transport his bulletproof limousine. Does anybody here really think the
Democrats would cease this practice if they win the White House in '08?

One more time....the party/elected official/whatever does NOT make
these decisions. They are made by the Secret Service, and for something
this relatively minor, no Pres or VP is going to argue with the Service.
Yes, it's relatively minor in the overall scheme of things.

You want Government waste? How about the fact that even ONE of the
cabinet-level organizations (let's take Agriculture) does NOT have
a single accounting/reporting method or system. You want a real
disaster? Go look at the DoD. Every service has its own financial
reporting system -- no wait -- every service has lots of different
financial reporting systems. There have been a few futile attempts
to standardize with no success and almost no cooperation.