The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said Wednesday that five employees associated with the recently scandal-plagued Government Services Administration went to Hawaii for up to a week in 2011 to attend an hour-long ribbon cutting on space leased by the federal government for the FBI.
Details of the incident surfaced in a transcript of an interview between the GSA Inspector General’s Office and a GSA employee.
The employee indicated to the IG investigator that trip was not isolated and that there was another, longer junket scheduled for Hawaii this fall.
That one would be in Hilo, Hawaii for 10 days and would include ribbon cuttings for a federal building, a post office and perhaps a courthouse.
The transcript indicates that some of the GSA employees went snorkeling during their free time in the mornings.
Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/gsa-scandal/2012/04/11/gsa-employees-travel-hawaii-five-days-one-hour-ribbon-cutting#ixzz1sJxgOnf7
This will all turn out to be the tip of the iceberg. Here is an article about it where they name the top players in this mess, including the Whistleblower who requested the original investigation. If Obama treats her like the rest of the whistleblowers she’ll be charged with the espionage act and sit in solitary like Bradley Manning.
What really makes me mad about this is these are the government, public employees soaking us for big bucks while public safety employees like cops and firefighters get lumped in with them.
One of these scuzzballs is on administrative leave which means all pay and no work. I’m glad Issa is hammering these jerks, but I read a report that showed the budget for the GSA increased over 100% from 2006-2008. That was a Republican president but I believe it was Pelosi’s house who failed at the oversight. We need to be a lot more diligent about this!
Happy Obama Christmas!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-TNRq4xVgE
Princess, “…GSA increased over 100% from 2006-2008. That was a Republican president but I believe it was Pelosi’s house who failed at the oversight.”
The Democrats were also in control of the Senate from 2006-1008.
Every time I hear the Talking Point expressed the problems of today were caused because of Bush I wish the come back would be, “It was a Democrat controled Congress, which included Obama voting for the very problems he’s blaming Bush for, if he didn’t vote present!”
The Democrats were in control of Congress for four years, from 2006-2010 with Harry Reid as Leader and are, therefore, the ones who have the majority of the responsibility for the mess we’re in.
From Wikipedia: “Reid succeeded Tom Daschle as minority leader in 2005 and became majority leader after the 2006 elections. He was re-elected majority leader without opposition by the Democratic caucus on November 18, 2008, winning all 57 votes.[6]”
Again, we need to stop believing what they say and look at the facts. Repeating lies does not make them true!!!!!
Princess, oh, you know it’s just the tip of the iceberg alright! We (taxpayers) can’t catch a break. We can’t go 10 minutes without hearing about another wasteful expenditure of our tax dollars, it just doesn’t let up. Every day we have headlines…the waste is epidemic, and that boys and girls explains why we are trillions of dollars in debt. The only way we can keep government from wasting more money is to not give them any more to waste. We will never be able to catch up to their spending, we just have to limit what we give em, that’s the only answer. These people in Washington are addicts for spending…they can’t stop themselves.
Finally the media is paying big attention to this! At the top of Google News is reporting the employees are calling the tip hotline to report the abuse. Thank goodness one person was courageous enough to blow the whistle on this thing.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gWjK5e_qr_DnZQwLDWagODeAQEjg?docId=fb44aa2b28bc409ca6accb1f4bb756ad
One hillarious line from the article is a quote from Brian Miller who is investigating this “We are doing all we can to identify those committing fraud and crimes and referring them to the Department of Justice for prosecution.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The Obama DOJ? Hopefully they won’t charge the whistleblower with the espionage act, and maybe they could take time from their busy job of taking away our civil rights with illegal search seizure and illegal detention to actually prosecute a crime. But I doubt it.
The disgusting debacles of the debauched and corrupt GSA and once secret services provided for the Secret Service aside, I feel Leon Panetta’s pain!
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday he regrets the cost to taxpayers for his weekend trips to his Carmel Valley home, but says it’s important “just to get your mind straight and your perspective straight.”
Panetta said he’d try to find some savings, with each round trip costing approximately $32,000.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20412723/panetta-says-he-regrets-cost-trips-home
Hmmm, is more or less than Nancy Pelosi’s weekly (sometimes daily) jet bill?
I FEEL! YOU FEEL! WE ALL FEEL PANETTA’S PAIN!
Speaking of waste, here is some Progressive waste for you —
The NIH National Institutes of Health has spent millions of tax dollars to fund an HIV-prevention website that, includes graphic images of homosexual sex and a Space Invaders type video game that uses a penis-shaped blaster to shoot down gay epithets.
But, of course, “if it saves one life” it is worth it. Right?