Special sessions are a fraud

Tue., June 16, 2015

$180,000 and still counting for special sessions of the Legislature. Not only is there fraud going on in Social Security Disability, welfare and food stamps, now we have the special sessions going on because the House or Senate cannot agree on anything. If that is not a form of fraud on us taxpayers, I don’t know what is.

$127 a day for food, etc. Pack a lunch, you know you will be there. And pay your own gas bill. It is not the taxpayers’ fault you can’t play together. Grow up and get your job done in time like the rest of us had to do when we worked (a lot of taxpayers still working).

Shame on all of you. I just wonder how long it will take the government to file for bankruptcy. Seems inevitable to me.

Carleen Reill

Spokane

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