Crap like this goes on and they DONT have enough money to treat our "wounded warriers" returning from war!
Typical DEMOCRATS! :(
Is Obama administration the new Animal house ?
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Officials with the federal agency now under congressional investigation over a lavish conference were captured on camera joking about the expense at the summit's "capstone" event in October 2010.
One official joked about how much was spent at a party hosted by the agency's commissioner. Another employee, in a mock music video, even sang about how he'd "never be under OIG investigation."
OIG stands for Office of Inspector General -- the office that earlier this week released a bombshell report that triggered firings at the agency that held the conference. The report found the Public Buildings Service, part of the General Services Administration, spent more than $820,000 on the meeting near Las Vegas in 2010.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/05/video-shows-offici...
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Old Salt 2012/04/06 18:06:36
I thought we were all supposed to tighten our belts !!!
http://usactionnews.com/2012/...
George W. Bush’s GSA chief Lurita Doan resigned in 2008 after a “tumultuous tenure in which she was accused of trying to award work to a friend and misusing her authority for political ends.” Second, bureaucrats have been wasting taxpayer money on conferences for years under the watch of both parties. For example, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) released a report in 2008 that found that federal agencies had spent over $2 billion on conferences from 2000-2006.
http://www.coburn.senate.gov/...
USDA SPENDS OVER $90 MILLION
IN CONFERENCE COSTS
The first in a multi-part review
of how federal agencies have spent billions
of dollars on conferences over the last six years.
Federal agencies have come under scrutiny for their lavish spending on conferences and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) is no exception. The Department recently reported to Congress that it has almost tripled its conference expenditures since the year 2000, to $19.4 million in FY2006.
In 2006, one entity within USDA, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) sent 47 peopl...
http://usactionnews.com/2012/...
George W. Bush’s GSA chief Lurita Doan resigned in 2008 after a “tumultuous tenure in which she was accused of trying to award work to a friend and misusing her authority for political ends.” Second, bureaucrats have been wasting taxpayer money on conferences for years under the watch of both parties. For example, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) released a report in 2008 that found that federal agencies had spent over $2 billion on conferences from 2000-2006.
http://www.coburn.senate.gov/...
USDA SPENDS OVER $90 MILLION
IN CONFERENCE COSTS
The first in a multi-part review
of how federal agencies have spent billions
of dollars on conferences over the last six years.
Federal agencies have come under scrutiny for their lavish spending on conferences and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) is no exception. The Department recently reported to Congress that it has almost tripled its conference expenditures since the year 2000, to $19.4 million in FY2006.
In 2006, one entity within USDA, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) sent 47 people (44 of whom were employees) to 10 conferences in Hawaii at a cost of $71,412.
USDA told a Senate oversight subcommittee that it had spent more than $90 million on
conferences from 2000-2006. Agency conference expenditures jumped more than $4
million, or 60 percent from 2001-2002, the first full fiscal year of the Bush Administration.
According to data submitted to a Senate oversight subcommittee, in just 2006 alone:
• 213 USDA employees attended approximately 94 separate conferences in Las Vegas at a cost of $254,755;
• 64 USDA employees (and 3 non-employees on USDA’s dime) traveled to Hawaii to attend approximately 28 separate conferences for a total cost of $130,600;
• 713 USDA employees attended 235 Sacramento conferences, at a cost of $560,000;
• 144 USDA employees attended 38 San Francisco conferences, at a cost of $144,000;
• 270 USDA employees went to approximately 59 separate conferences in Orlando, Florida —home to Disney World — at a cost of $282,656;
• 112 employees went to 34 conferences in Anchorage, Alaska at a cost of $227,000;
I think you get the idea.....
Hypocrites!
http://www.americanthinker.co...
This is a perfect example why we need to massively downscale a government that is no longer responsive to the needs of the people. Why do they deserve our tax money ?
I love the liberal mentality. "If you can do it so can we" !
Where is our budget ? Almost four years without one now. Even his own cronies don't vote for his budget ! It got tossed out with a vote of 414-0. When have we ever seen this ! The federal government takes in $2.4 trillion a year in revenue and he is spending $3.5 trillion or better every single year ? What idiot would do such a thing ? He has already out-spent George Bush that you hated so much and soon he will out-spend him and Clinton COMBINED !!!
It is difficult to be a liberal isn't it. the facts are so against you. keep trolling for your prez though. you are a good democrat ! blindly follow your leader even if it means the collapse of your country !
http://thehill.com/blogs/floo...
The House on Wednesday night unanimously rejected an alternative budget proposal based on President Obama's 2013 budget plan, dispatching it in a 0-414 rout.
White House officials said Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), the sponsor of the alternative, was using Obama's top-line spending and revenue numbers as a budget proposal, without any specifics..
The House also rejected two other budget alternatives Thursday night, including the first Congress has ever considered based on the recommendations of the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction commission. This proposal was hailed by sponsors Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) and Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio) as the only budget alternative that members of both parties can support..
Try to deal with some fact if you can....
Obama's deficit is due to Bush policies....
These are what are called facts try to deal with them and maybe learn something for once.. Oh and you're nothing but a troll yourself so I wouldn't tallk to much....
We are Owned by China now...
ODUMBO has Not Reduced the National Debt By Half...
I will ask you this again. Where is our budget ? That is a primary function of government...the few that they really should have. The last budget he proposed he lost by 414-0. Not one vote. Please explain this to us !
FACT: Obozo started out with a $10 trillion national debt and we are not on the way to a $16 trillion national debt ON HIS WATCH.
http://theeconomiccollapseblo...
http://cnsnews.com/news/artic...
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
let's discuss some other facts shall we ! even the Huffington Post understands more than you do.
Our national debt slipping out-of-control.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com...
http://thenationaldebtcrisis....
the unbelievable size of government ! look at this massive list of agencies and what they cost us !!! How over-regulations are hurting our economy...and what a democratic supporter says about this administration.....
http://www.akdart.com/gov1.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://www.businessinsider.co...
Senator admits that trillions of dollars were spend but "We have n...
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I will ask you this again. Where is our budget ? That is a primary function of government...the few that they really should have. The last budget he proposed he lost by 414-0. Not one vote. Please explain this to us !
FACT: Obozo started out with a $10 trillion national debt and we are not on the way to a $16 trillion national debt ON HIS WATCH.
http://theeconomiccollapseblo...
http://cnsnews.com/news/artic...
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
let's discuss some other facts shall we ! even the Huffington Post understands more than you do.
Our national debt slipping out-of-control.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com...
http://thenationaldebtcrisis....
the unbelievable size of government ! look at this massive list of agencies and what they cost us !!! How over-regulations are hurting our economy...and what a democratic supporter says about this administration.....
http://www.akdart.com/gov1.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://www.businessinsider.co...
Senator admits that trillions of dollars were spend but "We have nothing to show for it".....
http://www.nationalreview.com...
the 111th Congress will go down in US History as the most expensive irresponsible Congress in US History...
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/a...
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/a...
the first time in US history that our credit rating got downgraded....the dollar is slipping in world markets....the news keeps getting better.....
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfr...
http://www.washingtonpost.com...
One in two Americans are now in poverty !
http://www.usatoday.com/news/...
the true size of our national debt....
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/...
June 30th, 2010....the most expensive day in US history......
http://www.washingtontimes.co...
the economy is worse than you think....
http://online.wsj.com/article...
record-breaking debt levels and never seen before spending ! are we going to end up like Greece ?
http://www.reuters.com/articl...
S&P is lowering America's bond rating !
http://www.foxbusiness.com/ma...
America slips to 10th on the International Economic Freedom Index !
http://www.heritage.org/index...
CBO Report: current budgets will lead to debt rising to 90% of GDP !!
http://www.washingtontimes.co...
http://thehill.com/blogs/floo...
The House on Wednesday night unanimously rejected an alternative budget proposal based on President Obama's 2013 budget plan, dispatching it in a 0-414 rout.
White House officials said Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), the sponsor of the alternative, was using Obama's top-line spending and revenue numbers as a budget proposal, without any specifics..
The House also rejected two other budget alternatives Thursday night, including the first Congress has ever considered based on the recommendations of the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction commission. This proposal was hailed by sponsors Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) and Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio) as the only budget alternative that members of both parties can support..
"rejected an alternative budget proposal based on President Obama's 2013 budget plan" YOU do understand the word "alternate" I assume...
we are going on four years now without a budget. Every president up to now has done it. you mean to tell me that Mr. Harvard can't pass a simple thing like a budget ? it's called leading. sometimes you have to compromise.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/29...
even CNN understands more than you do. you are right.....no one voted for Obama's budget....not even his own party. 414-0. it was that bad. the president submits the budget and each arm of congress has committees to look it over. the House already passed theirs. the Senate will not bring it to the floor. who controls the Senate ? Why that would be Harry Reid.
If Barry really wanted a budget he would tell Reid to get going. It is their constitutional responsibility. they don't want us to see how they are spending our money. they don't want us to see their socialist spending binge.
do you pay taxes ?
ALL Administrations have had issues with miss use of tax dollars....
THIS Admimistration..Flaunts it in your Face...
Yet the GSA does it on Camera and has a Contest....Moosechell and all her Junkets with her "Friends" arounf the world and The Daughter Vacationing in Mexico with Her "Friends".....ALL on our Tax Dollar....what would You Call It...
He Keeps Lowerin the Unemployment, with Lower Jobs each Month...How IS THAT reality....350,000 created in Jan, lowered by 1/10 %..250,000 in Feb...lowered by 1/10%...120,000 in March..stlill lowered by 1/10%..How IS that Realistic....Playing with the Numbers and YOU LIB's are Buying Into it...
DUMB..is all I can say....Simple Math...Real Rate should be at 10+%....Deal With It...It IS Not Bush's Economy anymore...It IS ODUMBO's....Has Been since HE Promissed to Lowewr it below 8%...FAILED,
Cut Nat Debt by Half, But Increased more the Bush...FAILED
Bring Back Mfg, yet Give's 100's of Billion to 3-Foreign Countries to Produce what was once Produced here....FAILED....
8-years of Bush.....5.07 T....Due Mostly the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Justified or Not...Both Houses of Congress approved Iraq after 1-year of Debate....those wars cost money..majority of the 5.7 T
3-years of ODUMBO 1.44 T...Inhearted those wars and their Debt...so where was the 1.44 T spent...500 B to China fro Airplanes and Green Cars....500 B to Finland for Green Cars....500 B to Brazil for Drilling in the Gulf...None of it here...
Apples to Oranges...
All the Stimulus Spending has Failed..only the banks and Wall Street Investment firms benefited, NOT the People....500 B to Solyndra, out the Window..None of your figers jive or add up...
Try Again....
You fail..
Try Again..
http://blogs.investors.com/ca...
The Congressional Oversight Panel released a study of the TARP bailout of the auto industry today, and the good news is it could have been a whole lot worse for John Q. Taxpayer:
From the report’s executive summary:
As of September 2009, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that taxpayers would lose $40 billion on their automotive investments. Today, CBO has reduced its loss estimate to $19 billion, and the three largest recipients of automotive bailout funds — General Motors (GM), Chrysler, and GMAC/Ally Financial — all appear to be on the path to financial stability.
The summary notes that the main reason for the loss is that the Treasury Department’s IPO for GM in November received a sale price of $33 a share, “well below” the $44.59 needed to break even for the taxpayers. “By selling stock for less than this break-even price, Treasury essentially ‘locked in’ a loss of billions of dollars and thus greatly reduced the likelihood that taxpayers will ever be repaid in full,” the summary noted, adding that the government has given multiple, conflicting explanations for the decision to sell at that pri...
http://blogs.investors.com/ca...
The Congressional Oversight Panel released a study of the TARP bailout of the auto industry today, and the good news is it could have been a whole lot worse for John Q. Taxpayer:
From the report’s executive summary:
As of September 2009, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that taxpayers would lose $40 billion on their automotive investments. Today, CBO has reduced its loss estimate to $19 billion, and the three largest recipients of automotive bailout funds — General Motors (GM), Chrysler, and GMAC/Ally Financial — all appear to be on the path to financial stability.
The summary notes that the main reason for the loss is that the Treasury Department’s IPO for GM in November received a sale price of $33 a share, “well below” the $44.59 needed to break even for the taxpayers. “By selling stock for less than this break-even price, Treasury essentially ‘locked in’ a loss of billions of dollars and thus greatly reduced the likelihood that taxpayers will ever be repaid in full,” the summary noted, adding that the government has given multiple, conflicting explanations for the decision to sell at that price.
Nevertheless, the $19 billion may have been worth it if did result in genuinely transformed companies able to be competitive in the current market. The jury remains out on that, though. For example, GM is pushing its new plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt, a car that even it says won’t be profitable for the company for at least three years.
The panel’s report concludes:
Treasury is now on course to recover the majority of its automotive investments within the next few years, but the impact of its actions will reverberate for much longer. Treasury’s rescue suggested that any sufficiently large American corporation even if it is not a bank may be considered “too big to fail,” creating a risk that moral hazard will infect areas of the economy far beyond the financial system. Further, the fact that the government helped absorb the consequences of GM’s and Chrysler’s failures has put more competently managed automotive companies at a disadvantage. For these reasons, the effects of Treasury’s intervention will linger long after taxpayers have sold their last share of stock in the automotive industry.
The Stimulis did work and you're boring me with your stupid lies....
These people are having a BIG PARTY with our money while bankrupting our country!