News Your Tax Dollars At Work
This is despicable:
A beer-brewing kit and over 50 iPod music players are among hundreds of thousands of dollars’ in wasteful purchases by Homeland Security Department employees following hurricanes Katrina and Rita, according to a report released on Wednesday.Poor oversight allowed department employees to make a wide range of questionable purchases during the response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita last fall, congressional investigators at the Government Accountability Office found.
The trouble started when Congress increased the cap on Homeland Security credit cards from $2,500 to $250,000 after Katrina, while putting no guidelines in place for how such cards should be used. Among the questionable purchases by DHS, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service:
• An $8,000 plasma TV;
• $68,000 worth of unused dog booties designed to protect search dogs’ feet;
• 110 laptop computers;
• 54 IPods;
• “Team-building exercises” at private golf and tennis resorts;
And, perhaps most shocking:
• $1,000 worth of beer-brewing supplies, which the Coast Guard said “enabled the agency to save money that would be otherwise spent on commercial brands at official functions.” Because obviously, it’s our duty as Americans to pick up these people’s bar tabs.
David Norquist, Homeland Security’s new chief financial officer, said the agency has approved tighter spending guidelines but hasn’t implemented them.
Well all I can say is THANK GOD the President is a Christian with a successful background in business. His values and business savvy have trickled down to every level of government.
And as far as we know, he hasn't gotten sex from ANYONE in a really long time, and I have every reason to believe that's true. You can only be so desparate.