SEVEN TEA PARTY Freshmen SPENT More Than $100,000 In TAXPAYER MONEY On Personal Cars

[SheilaT]

51. The DC area has amazing public transportation.

I first moved there in 1968, and did not own a car until 1976, when I decided to go back to school. This was before the Metro opened, and I had no trouble getting along on public transportation, even though I did shift work at National Airport, and so I was commuting some pretty odd hours.

DC is not too expensive for anyone to live in. Yeah, if you think you have to have a multi-million dollar home in one of the nicer neighborhoods, then their salary won't go far, but as others have already pointed out, these are exactly the kind of people who don't bring their families to DC and live cheaply in some kind of shared living arrangement.

These people begrudge food stamps for the poor while they get free meals probably five nights a week from various lobbyists (when I ran for the Kansas State House in 2004 I was amazed at how many free meals I got), think that it's okay that millions of Americans have inadequate or no health insurance while making sure they get a cadillac plan of their own.

It's they hypocrisy.