Waste As Usual
As Cato's @NeilMcCluskey pointed out in a tweet, the GSA blowing through more than $820,000 for a Vegas conference with the mind reader is just federal business as usual. Yes, yes, of course there will be a hearing. (Yawn-o-rama!) From FoxNews:
A top Senate Democrat on Sunday joined the chorus of lawmakers vowing to get to the bottom of what happened in Vegas -- after a federal agency blew through more than $820,000 for a 2010 conference.Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the No. 2 Democrat in the chamber, said the subcommittee he leads on the Senate Appropriations Committee will hold a hearing on the controversy when Congress returns from break.
"It's an absolutely outrageous expenditure of taxpayers' money," Durbin said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "That kind of misuse of taxpayers' funds is totally unacceptable."
And day to day business as usual in government, you pandering jerkwad. Like you don't vote in ridiculous spending of money we don't have like it's your job description.
There are actually ads on the buses in DC every year from vendors with helpful suggestions as to how government officials can spend "their" end-of-year remaining money.
david foster at April 9, 2012 6:51 AM
Meanwhile, overhead...
Crid at April 9, 2012 6:54 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/04/09/waste_as_usual.html#comment-3130227">comment from david fosterLight money on fire to keep the Senate office building warm. It'll be about as well spent as it usually is in government. Durbin calling for a hearing on this...so absurd...just call for one on all of government. Or, better yet, just disband most of it.
Amy Alkon
at April 9, 2012 6:58 AM
David,
It's been 20 years since I've been in DC, and I am sure I won't be there in the near future.
I'd really like to encourage you to make a tumblr of those ads.
jerry at April 9, 2012 9:16 AM
shyeah, as if those hearings don't burn through an obscene amount of money and man hours... but the only way to manage a thing is to be seen managing it.
OTOH this is perverse incentives where if you don't use your whole budget you lose it, and they cut it for next year as well.
SwissArmyD at April 9, 2012 9:49 AM
Apparently, GSA management also lost $20,000 worth of iPods and abused the employee reward program.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/gsa-ipods-missing-investigation/2012/04/09/id/435301
Conan the Grammarian at April 9, 2012 3:00 PM
A top Senate Democrat on Sunday joined the chorus of lawmakers vowing to get to the bottom of what happened in Vegas
Outrageous! Don't they know the rule - "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas"?
Ltw at April 9, 2012 7:43 PM
Holy crap, Crid. When the JSF award was announced, there were people around Boeing who suspected that someday they'd be thanking their lucky stars that they lost. Looks like they were right.
Cousin Dave at April 9, 2012 8:18 PM
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