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Rep Mica (R) who sits on the House Oversight Committee has been briefed on depositions regarding the GSA. He just stated that the scandals coming out of the GSA are much worse than the Secret Service Scandal. It will shock us.

You don't think what I am thinking?
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Baldo
Apr 19 2012, 06:12 PM
oooh

Rep Mica (R) who sits on the House Oversight Committee has been briefed on depositions regarding the GSA. He just stated that the scandals coming out of the GSA are much worse than the Secret Service Scandal. It will shock us.

You don't think what I am thinking?
There was mention of "kickback".
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Apr 19 2012, 06:12 PM
oooh

Rep Mica (R) who sits on the House Oversight Committee has been briefed on depositions regarding the GSA. He just stated that the scandals coming out of the GSA are much worse than the Secret Service Scandal. It will shock us.

You don't think what I am thinking?
"kickback"

Assume we are to learn from this to 'get a gubment job'

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Apr 19 2012, 05:48 AM
In berating GSA officials for the waste of only a million dollars, the Congress has once again made an art form of hypocrisy.. This is the same body that routinely spends billions of dollars every year on needless earmark projects and that in its own perks and pensions provides its members lavish benefits that cannot be justified actuarially or matched by private companies constrained by competition and the marketplace.. Who needs to be rebuked for thinking that scandals of the GSA sort must be welcomed by our legislators, as they give our solons yet another stage on which to pretend that they themselves do not wallow in sybaritic excess at taxpayer expense?

Here is a tautology in a class with "All men are mortal":. Big government is wasteful.. Whether it's conventions without agendas in Nevada or flat-screen televisions for office canteens makes little difference.. As long as budgets allow agencies and bureaucracies to spend dollars irrespective of "outputs" or products that in the private sector must justify themselves against competitors, as long as the federal government spends trillions of dollars in excess of tax revenues, why should anyone be surprised at the occasional pimple that erupts here or there?. To work oneself into a rage over GSA shenanigans makes about as much sense as to revile a six-hundred-pound man for chewing his nails.. Size does matter, and it's the project of getting everyone chanting SHRINK the LEVIATHAN to which we should be devoting our energies.
I certainly couldn't disagree with you. Our Federal Govt is one gigantic sucking machine of capital. Congress has for decades become the distributor of Pork. The list is long on both sides of the isle but the shear magnitude of the spending since the Stimulus has out distance anything we have ever seen.

Just take Murtha for example and his wasteful airport. I could give you examples of wasteful military programs. Over & over again it is repeated. I was upset with Bush in his 2nd term as he refused to veto one spending bill.

However we are in now.

We have a President who has held 122 fundraisers, most needing travel
He has played 94 rounds of Golf in 3 1/4 years
He has taken 17 vacations
His Sec of Defense flies weekly back on to California & his walnut ranch at huge expense to us Taxpayers.

We all have our own examples. However the problem is so huge and human nature being what it we need a a face, a focus, to get upset & create action.

We now have one

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Apr 19 2012, 06:54 PM
Duke parent 2004
Apr 19 2012, 05:48 AM
In berating GSA officials for the waste of only a million dollars, the Congress has once again made an art form of hypocrisy.. This is the same body that routinely spends billions of dollars every year on needless earmark projects and that in its own perks and pensions provides its members lavish benefits that cannot be justified actuarially or matched by private companies constrained by competition and the marketplace.. Who needs to be rebuked for thinking that scandals of the GSA sort must be welcomed by our legislators, as they give our solons yet another stage on which to pretend that they themselves do not wallow in sybaritic excess at taxpayer expense?

Here is a tautology in a class with "All men are mortal":. Big government is wasteful.. Whether it's conventions without agendas in Nevada or flat-screen televisions for office canteens makes little difference.. As long as budgets allow agencies and bureaucracies to spend dollars irrespective of "outputs" or products that in the private sector must justify themselves against competitors, as long as the federal government spends trillions of dollars in excess of tax revenues, why should anyone be surprised at the occasional pimple that erupts here or there?. To work oneself into a rage over GSA shenanigans makes about as much sense as to revile a six-hundred-pound man for chewing his nails.. Size does matter, and it's the project of getting everyone chanting SHRINK the LEVIATHAN to which we should be devoting our energies.
I certainly couldn't disagree with you. Our Federal Govt is one gigantic sucking machine of capital. Congress has for decades become the distributor of Pork. The list is long on both sides of the isle but the shear magnitude of the spending since the Stimulus has out distance anything we have ever seen.

Just take Murtha for example and his wasteful airport. I could give you examples of wasteful military programs. Over & over again it is repeated. I was upset with Bush in his 2nd term as he refused to veto one spending bill.

However we are in now.

We have a President who has held 122 fundraisers, most needing travel
He has played 94 rounds of Golf in 3 1/4 years
He has taken 17 vacations
His Sec of Defense flies weekly back on to California & his walnut ranch at huge expense to us Taxpayers.

We all have our own examples. However the problem is so huge and human nature being what it we need a a face, a focus, to get upset & create action.

We now have one

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everytime i see this picture I have to ask - What was he thinking?

That he photographed extensively his "vacations" - for lack of a better word - at the taxpayers expense demonstrates the utter contempt that the GSA officials have for those who ultimately pay for their soirees.
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I agree with the utter contempt theory, but when you consider how long these practices have gone on in DC, isn't it logical to think that these employees have a right to assume that these abuses have long ago been condoned by the taxpayer. I also agree with Duke Parent 2004, that it pales in comparison to the multiple "bridges to nowhere" that taxpayers have funded and various other pork barrel spending schemes that have costs us billions of dollars. Yes the GSA is now the poster child of government waste, but it is merely the tip of the iceberg. Who and when will we destroy the iceberg?
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Earlier today I listened to Rep Mica talk about what for sure will be indictments. He said Neeley was turned in long ago and the GSA did nothing. They were even warned about his 17 day "trip" to Hawaii and the south sea, but approved it.

This scandal most likely goes higher. He said the White House knew of this over a year ago.

So what have we learned about this Administration? 5 Trillion in debt. Nothing more needs be said. No Congress, no President has ever gone on a spending spree like this.

Obama doesn't care.

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It's possible that Neely was a dual agent of sorts. He may have been scoping out vacation spots
for Michelle and the girls. There may be a reason O likes to get them out of DC. It seems his
agents know how to move in "classy" circles.
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Key figure in GSA partying probe leaves
Neely headed agency’s Western region


Jeffrey Neely, the central figure in a lavish taxpayer-funded Las Vegas convention that saw magic acts and federal workers sipping martinis on a red carpet, has left the General Services Administration (GSA).

The departure comes as scrutiny on the 2010 conference intensifies and weeks after Mr. Neely, a GSA regional commissioner, refused to testify before Congress, citing his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

The GSA's Office of Inspector General uncovered massive waste and has declined to release its investigatory files on the conference in response to an open records request, citing an ongoing law enforcement probe
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/24/key-figure-in-gsa-partying-probe-leaves/
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May 24 2012, 09:26 PM
Key figure in GSA partying probe leaves
Neely headed agency’s Western region


Jeffrey Neely, the central figure in a lavish taxpayer-funded Las Vegas convention that saw magic acts and federal workers sipping martinis on a red carpet, has left the General Services Administration (GSA).

The departure comes as scrutiny on the 2010 conference intensifies and weeks after Mr. Neely, a GSA regional commissioner, refused to testify before Congress, citing his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

The GSA's Office of Inspector General uncovered massive waste and has declined to release its investigatory files on the conference in response to an open records request, citing an ongoing law enforcement probe
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/24/key-figure-in-gsa-partying-probe-leaves/
With a pension for life, I presume. What's to keep this clown from getting a job with another wasteful agency in Washington?
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