Trump's USA Treasury spending account has been overdrawn for the entire time he has been in the White House. I am confident there are peers of one cabinet official or another that gets the word, "Just charge it to the country, after all it is all country business."
This is the problem with allowing business men or women to act as a government official; they believe their spending can be endless.
5 October 2018
By Nigel Gladstone
Assistant Treasurer (click here) Stuart Robert has been charging taxpayers more than $2000 per month to use the internet at his Gold Coast home.
Mr Robert, who has a masters degree in information technology, racked up monthly bills 20 times higher than the average cost of data provided to other politicians' homes, averaging $1845 during the latest six months of expenses.
In May, the most recent month reported, Mr Robert's internet use cost $2832, or about $90 per day.
The Fadden MP said he used "around" 300 gigabytes of data in that month and the bill was a result of exceeding his data limit of 50GB and having to pay per gigabyte after that.
Three hundred gigabytes equates to about 100 hours of streaming high definition shows on Netflix or Stan, playing 3000 hours of Fortnite online or streaming music for about 2600 hours....
