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Topic Started: Apr 6 2012, 12:19 PM (1,995 Views)
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Our hard-working Govt Employees made videos for that $820,000 conference in Nevada. Here's the winner - made on our time!

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Video featuring Federal Employees jokes about never being under Inspector General Investigation, Lavish GSA Spending

The video clips below are from the U.S. General Services Administration's (GSA) October 2010 Western Region Conference in Las Vegas, NV. It was played on Thursday, October 28, 2010 at the "Capstone Dinner Event."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vofWkCJvbDo


CNN reports

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJtoHk4Goh0


ABC's Tapper on on GSA Talent Show, Lavish Vegas Convention
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjhIGHABRbs&feature=relmfu


Remember back in Feb 2010?

Speaking about the economy at an event in New Hampshire, Mr Obama told Americans: "When times are tough, you tighten your belts.

"You don't go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don't blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you're trying to save for college. You prioritise. You make tough choices."...snipped
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/7149616/Barack-Obama-tells-Americans-dont-go-to-Las-Vegas.html


GSA head resigns amid reports of lavish spending


A senior government official resigned Monday after a report concluded her agency improperly paid for an "over-the-top" training session near Las Vegas that featured a mind reader, bicycle giveaways and lavish after-hour receptions in resort suites for federal workers.

The White House accepted General Services Administration chief Martha Johnson's resignation after she dismissed two deputies and suspended other career employees over an $820,000 conference. The 300-person event at the M Resort Spa and Casino in Henderson, Nev., included a $95-per-person dinner and reception as well as various violations of federal laws and policies.

...The planners spent more than $136,000 on a pre-conference visit to Las Vegas, including $57 lunches, according to an internal review first reported by The Washington Post.

That report also found "redundant and wasteful" practices, such as hiring outside event planners when the agency already has in-house workers for those tasks. Those outside planners received a $12,000 commission from the resort, which the investigators said "strongly indicates that further discounts might have been available to GSA if GSA had contracted the hotel directly."...snipped

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/04/02/national/w133642D42.DTL&tsp=1


Inspector general's Report came out today, that's why!

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/pdfs/040212_gsa_spending_IGreport.pdf

$44 per person for breakfast! In Henderson!! Are you kidding me?

Now the videos are coming out
Edited by Baldo, Apr 6 2012, 12:50 PM.
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It makes me sick.

Remember all the Waste Obama was going to Eliminate in Government?

What happened there? I'm going to find it and eliminate it - AFTER I pass my spending Bills.

So many Lies.


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Panetta is $843,000 short


http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/6/panetta-paid-17k-860k-commute-california/







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To make matters worse this conference was held October 28, 2010. Just months after Obama said to Corporations don't waste money flying to Vegas & when unemployment in the country was over 10%.

One of the Directors of the GSA specifically said he wanted the conference to "Be over the top." It was, that's is one thing the GSA is good at, blowing our money!
Edited by Baldo, Apr 6 2012, 12:52 PM.
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They just don't care. They have no reason to care. There are never any real consequences.
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The Obama administration is now blaming the Bush administration....saying that expenses for the western group within the GSA went up every year under while Bush was in office and if THEY had acted on those rising expenses then this would not have occurred on the Obama watch.



SHAMELESS!!!!!!!!!
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Party crowd: Last week's revelation that the General Services Administration paid $835,000 to dine and entertain 300 West Coast workers at a lavish conference outside Las Vegas in 2010 has rippled all the way to San Francisco.

According to a GSA source, acting Pacific Rim Administrator Jeff Neely was among those who had a big hand in the party planning.

Neely was one of four administrators suspended after an inspector general report that detailed $147,000 spent on six planning trips for organizers, $3,200 for a mind reader, $6,300 for commemorative coins and $75,000 for a team- building exercise to construct a bicycle.

It may not have been the only time big bucks went into such meetings.

A former GSA staffer who asked not to be identified told us he was among 50 regional employees who were bused up to the Lodge at Sonoma Renaissance Resort & Spa for a two-day team building exercise in 2009 - at the height of the recession - that cost well over $50,000.

"We dropped eggs in straw and shot water balloons with slings," the staffer recalled.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/08/BAQB1O0651.DTL&tsp=1


50 people for a two-day team building event works out to be $500/per person/per day

Sonoma Renaissance Resort & Spa
http://www.thelodgeatsonoma.com/


Pretty lavish team building. Egg drops & balloon sling shots?

I wonder how many took advantage of the body spa menu
http://www.thelodgeatsonoma.com/files/RaindanceSpaBrochureSeptember2011final.pdf
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$44.00 a person for Breakfast.

That's all I need to know.



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Every employee in these videos should have a video pink slip delivered to them by Congress. This is despicable given that only the federal government is hiring at break neck speed while there are no jobs in the private sector due to government regs and policies.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/08/durbin-joins-call-for-hearings-on-agencys-vegas-getaway/
Durbin joins call for hearings on agency's Vegas getaway

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."

The exploits of the Public Buildings Service, a chapter of the General Services Administration, have emerged as one of the few things Democrats and Republicans in Washington can agree on. Lawmakers of both parties have roundly condemned the conference spending, detailed in an inspector general's report last week, as over-the-top.

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I want the a-holes that filmed this video to be fired. Will the Democrats have the guts to do this?
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What party are they affiliated with?

Very hard to fire a union/gov't employee. Even harder to fire a Democrat version.
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They probably hired a private videographer to do it.
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More videos are being discovered! here area few


GS-TWENTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE3ij8dGdWo


THIS One makes your taxpayer blood Boil!

GSA WRC 2010 - "Angry Office Clown"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK9eTBkB9qs&feature=relmfu


Then some presentations & interviews at the Conference

GSA WRC 2010 - "Luck Be A Lady"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfaeOGbQ7NE&feature=relmfu

GSA WRC 2010 - "Red Carpet"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoGMi0LVsj4&feature=relmfu


FIRE EVERYONE WHO WAS AT THIS CONFERENCE!

Remember unemployment was around 10% when this happened. Foreclosures were soaring, people were losing their homes. Look at how arrogant they are joking about wasting money, goofing on on the job (meetings only happen between naps!).

It is us vs our federal public employees. Course we have Queen Michelle living the life so what do you expect, her servants live it up also with her poor example as a guide.
Edited by Baldo, Apr 9 2012, 12:26 PM.
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http://news.yahoo.com/gsa-video-puts-gsa-issas-crosshairs-154312467--abc-news-politics.html
New GSA Video Puts GSA in Issa's Crosshairs
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