GSA spending scandal

[WNYresident]

GSA spending scandal

I saw this in the news tonight...

Washington’s newest dirty word is “conference.” Thanks to the clowning and magic tricks by the General Service Administration at a posh Las Vegas resort (the one that led to the resignation this week of the agency’s chief and the ouster of four officials involved in planning the ritzy event) the word may now be verboten among the agencies.


For example, yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security boasted of its successful “2012 National Fusion Center Training Event.” A “training event” sounds like serious business. Not to be confused with a “conference,” which, thanks to the GSA, now conjures up images of conga lines and taxpayer-funded decadence.

Read more about the GSA

Obama Fires: GSA chief resigns amid reports of excessive spending

[WNYresident]

Bill O'Reilly -- Wasting Taxpayer Money

[WNYresident]

[WNYresident]

Another Video...




While legal USA non-government laborers/non-government business owners are busting their asses this is how "our" government spends our money



GSA conference video

[granpabob]

Did I hear right I think I heard on the news today that the people who planned this conference are getting a bonus for doing so well. I would think it was a joke but it is washington

[WNYresident]

along with MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of dollars lost with subsidizing "green companies"...

[WNYresident]

Federal employees got bonuses for planning agency's lavish 2010 event, investigation reveals

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz1rkKLgjkK

Awarding bonuses for wasting taxpayer dollars?

That appears to be incentive offered by the federal agency under fire for spending lavishly on a 2010 conference held near Las Vegas. The latest details from an inspector general report on the conference reveal 50 employees were given cash awards of $500 and $1,000 for their work arranging the now-infamous conference.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz1rkKNsT7s

[WNYresident]

Get Real! GSA's 800k Hawaii trip

[Yankeefan2009]

Is it any wonder the deficit has tripled under Obama with things like this?

[WNYresident]

$330,000 to relocate an employee

[WNYresident]

What a ball-less example of a man this is:

Washington (CNN) -- A government official at the center of lavish spending at a Las Vegas conference claimed his Fifth Amendment rights against testifying at a congressional hearing Monday, while his former boss said she mourned her departure from public service over the controversy.

Jeff Neely, the General Services Administration official who organized the 2010 conference that cost $800,000, repeatedly refused to answer questions, saying more than five times: "I respectfully decline to answer any questions here today based on my Fifth Amendment constitutional privileges."

Rep. Darrell Issa, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, then excused Neely and proceeded with the hearing on what he described as an unacceptable waste of taxpayer money.

read the full story on CNN

[WNYresident]

GSA officials grilled on Vegas bash at Capitol Hill hearing

Top officials from the agency accused of blowing through taxpayer
dollars on luxury getaways and other expenses endured a public drubbing
Monday on Capitol Hill, as one invoked his right to remain silent,
others apologized profusely and lawmakers tore into them for the "gross
abuse of taxpayer funds."


Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee at
times yelled at the representatives from the General Services
Administration called to testify Monday, demanding strict punishment.
The acting chief of the agency later assured lawmakers that he's ordered
a few GSA officials to repay the government for their personal expenses
and will refer any "criminal activity" that is uncovered to law
enforcement.

Read the full story on FOX

Monday on Capitol Hill, as one invoked his right to remain silent,
others apologized profusely and lawmakers tore into them for the "gross
abuse of taxpayer funds."

They can shove all the apologies up their ass. This same bs goes on at different levels of "government" at the net tax payers expense.

[BorderBob]

$330,000 to relocate an employee

Well, they did relocate to Hawaii. That ain't cheap. The fact is, paid government moves are pretty common, though less so than years before. People in my agency typically don't move that much at my level (bargaining unit, non supervisory), if we do, we pay our own way. Management on the other hand typically get paid moves and the expenses described in the video are pretty common, again recognizing that this $330K cost is atypical given it is a move to an island in the Pacific.

I should add that paid moves typically involve promotions, unpaid moves by non supervisory personnel are voluntary. If the government were to order me to be transferred, they pay the freight.

Oh, and it has always been that way so put away the Obama deficit card. Government relocates people and when they do, they pay the way.



b.b.

[mikenold]

Jeff Neely, the General Services Administration official who organized the 2010 conference that cost $800,000, repeatedly refused to answer questions, saying more than five times: "I respectfully decline to answer any questions here today based on my Fifth Amendment constitutional privileges." http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktl...,5354754.story

The newest revelation that Neely and others were "taking lots of trips with their families for vacation weekends and billing it to preparation for this conference."

"In one e-mail," Cummings began, "Mr. Neely invited personal friends to the conference, writing, and I quote -- and this is simply incredible -- quote: 'We'll get you guys a room near us, and we'll pick up the room tab. Could be a blast.' End of quote. He then went on and wrote this -- 'I know I'm bad, but as Deb and I often say, why not enjoy it while we have it and while we can. Ain't gonna last forever.' End of quote. Well, Mr. Neely it stops now." http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/16/politics/gsa-hearing/

Shameful and quite possibly criminal! When will we learn that the government cannot manage our money? It is always very easy to spend somebody elses money. This is simply robbery to take our hard earned money and spend it wastefully and without regard as to the sweat and time put in to earning it!

[mikenold]

More details:

http://social.patriotactionnetwork.c...opic%3A5756474