Feds pay for foreign journalists to travel, drink American wine


	Feds pay for foreign journalists to travel, drink American wine

BobbyDelray

10-23-2007 2:26 PM

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fed, government, wine, journalist, agriculture department

BobbyDelray says:

Would you driink wine if the Federal Government paid you to do it?

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