Republicans Want to Shut Down the Boys & Girls Club of America

If you’re like me, you grew up at the club, learning to swim and play ball.

But Republican Senators are on a witch hunt, vowing to deny the club government funding unless it accounts for it’s executive spending.

One bone of contention is the $4.3 million spend on business travel in 2008. Congress and The Senate itself racked-up almost that exact amount, spending $14.4 million between 2000 and 2004. And that’s just the chunk paid for by “private interest groups”. Government spend is a secret. We only pay the bill, we don’t get to actually see it.

Money spent on conferences was likewise criticized. A total of $1.6 was spent for the year. You may recall that AIG spent nearly half that amount on one single conference right after receiving a major government bail-out.

Yet another thorn in their sides was the $360,774 annual salary paid to the club’s CEO. Expert say this is not out of line with what similar charity executive are paid, but perhaps the Senators are just miffed because they make just $174,000.

AIG of course made the news when it capped salaries at a mere $500,000, except for executive who they deem “essential”. Their CFO makes $3 million in cash a year, $4 million in stock.

Well, I suppose saving big business should be the government’s priority, or we may all be out of a job.

Wait… we already are!

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