Comments on: Hemingway's Cats, Pampered By Uncle Sam

The Six-Toed Felines Of Key West Get Special Treatment -- With Your Tax Dollars

[ukclh33]

If the idiot "volunteer" hadn''t called in the government in the first place, none of the tax dollars would have been spent and us tax payers would not have paid for 14 USDA field trips to sunny Key West. Hey here is a thought, lets tell the INS workers they get free trips to Cancun, and maybe we can get the illegals "rounded up nightly and caged"

[maedean]

Lets see our goverment can pay for cats but not our kids to have medical .. Why didn''t the peice of sheet Bush veto this ???

[cdfoxtrot]

And...... this is the number one story in the whole world, according to CBS??

[andor3]

so the problem is that the cats are not pure Americans, but Feline-Americans and are trading with China? I dunno guess I came in the middle of this discussion and tried to make sense of it...

[obiwan234]

I guess I have problems seeing our tax dollars used to support cats while folks are starving and homeless here and over seas. I love cats, but who cares?

[michellem99-2009]

amen to that post TR 1907.That''s right..
Barbara Dear yer right..fix them so no more kittens .

[Hybdiesel]

At last a subject I know something about. Cat poop stinks. About like the air around here when Bushit was in Memphis the other day.

[hedonist3]

Good grief! Bureaucracy run amok. Mourn with me the final gasp of Common Sense. "...at least 14 USDA field trips to sunny Key West." Hmmmmm......

[GRPDiver]

Assuming $200/hr (including fringes) for 270 hours, that is $54,000 in labor. Assuming 2 trips/yr for 2 days/trip for 5 years (I will assume shoulder season), the per diem would be $3,760 total using today''s rates (higher if traveled during peak season). The city pair rates do not exist for Washington, DC, to Key West Florida, so using current full fare ticket prices (government does not use non-refundable tickets), the air fare for 2 trips/yr for 5 years would be $14,380 using today''s rates. Because I used today''s rates for historical costs, I''ll discount the total by 10%. The total cost is $64,926. So, use $65,000. How many children''s health care coverage would that pay? Maybe 54 children guessing at a cost of $1200/yr? In the grand scheme of the USDA, and the federal government as a whole, not a major impact. Multiple that by the thousands of wasteful actions by the federal government, and you can see why our taxes keep going up and up and services keep getting cut. I HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON MY HANDS!

[barbaraf4]

Get them all neutered. This would be the last generation.