Big Government As Usual
Pete Kasperowicz reports on The Hill that Republican Rep John Mica of Florida said that the investigation into the spending habits of the General Services Admin has found that several GSA officials were flown to Hawaii for a week for a one-hour ribbon-cutting ceremony:

Information about the Hawaii trip comes from the same source that most of the other information has come from -- GSA's Inspector General office. Mica released a partial transcript of an interview with a GSA employee who said several employees went to Hawaii on a Saturday and returned the following Friday for a one-hour ribbon cutting ceremony.

"That was the official reason?" the IG office asked.

"That was the official reason, yeah," the employee replied, adding that these trips are "fairly frequent."

When the IG office suggested that the employees were working hard the whole time, the GSA employee replied, "I doubt it."

The shock is that anyone is surprised by this stuff. This is just how Big Government is done. It's taxpayer dollars they're spending, so who cares? Just like in the House, Senate and The White House.