2006-07-06 16:39:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I don't think it is an ethical concern - they are president/vicepresident 24 hours of the day unlike most of us who are employees for 8 hours and then home makers the rest of the time. In addition, there are the usual security reasons.
On the otherhand, whether they can attend sporting events and waste their time while there is a war going on, is an entirely serious ethical question. Further, the fact that they make time to visit sporting events but not funeral events of dead soldiers during a war time should outrage every true patriot.
2006-07-06 16:48:58 · answer #1 · answered by interstate_101 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Should they have federal agents as body guards or driving them around? There's not a lot of choice now is there? If congress believes it costs too much, then they alone control the purse strings, and those determinations were made a long time before the last 5 presidents. There is a budget for official travel & it has to be kept too.
2006-07-06 16:48:01 · answer #2 · answered by djack 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean like Air Force 1? Well, that's pretty much the President's plane, isn't it? So...if not, we better figure out another plane for him to take, cuz he probably will need to throw out the first pitch at one time or another.
I really don't have strong feelings about whether it ought to be military. Do you have some reason why you think it shouldn't?
2006-07-06 16:45:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good idea. I'd love to see a Joint Strike Fighter Jump Jet harrier land at the Superbowl with GWB. The only way you'd beat that is if he flew in on a jet pack and crashed from about 500+ feet to his death!
2006-07-06 16:46:18 · answer #4 · answered by LEBDOG 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certainly! I don't think they should take a cab. Would you have asked that question if '"the impeached" Bill Clinton was still the president?
2006-07-06 16:56:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they should use military aircraft to go wherever they need to since it is the safest way to transport them.
2006-07-06 16:42:45 · answer #6 · answered by tsopolly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hell yeah. But to save money, I think they should be strapped on to those pilotless Predator planes that the military is using. That would be a great sight.
2006-07-06 16:50:43 · answer #7 · answered by rocco 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't care. That type of thing is the least of our problems. They waste our tax money in far worse ways.
2006-07-06 16:43:48 · answer #8 · answered by MackMama 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, unless you want to pay more in taxes to provide them with private charters. Someone has to pay. Who do you think that will be?
2006-07-06 16:44:20 · answer #9 · answered by NONAME 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, the pilots need training
2006-07-06 16:42:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋