Thursday, April 19, 2012
Secret Service Director Sullivan Gives G-Men Slap on Wrist
THE KUHNS REPORT
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LAS VEGAS:
Hello America, and how is the world treating you?
Three Secret Service agents were disciplined. But not enough. Again, it's another example of the government protecting their own. The agencies director, Mark Sullivan issued a slap on the wrist as far as I'm concerned. Was it punishment to fit the crime? No way, director Sullivan.
Yes, the three agents were ousted but two of them were allowed to leave the agency in a way that will allow them to go out and be rehired by other agencies. That shouldn't be. My view, all "eleven agents" should have been fired, IMMEDIATELY.
One supervising agent was allowed to retire. I say, it shouldn't have happen. This guy can now received a large, lucrative pension that we taxpayers are on the hook for. We'll be paying him for the rest of his life. And don't forget, we'll have to pay for his health care and other benefits that the Feds lavish on their employees. Plus, he can now go out and get another job in law-enforcement and continue his bad behavior. On the other hand, if the agent was "fired", he could have lost all of his retirement goodies and benefits and it would be a matter of record when a prospective employer and/or agency checked his background. A slap on the wrist for this agent by the Secret Service ? You bet!
A second agent was allowed to resign. This man can also go out and get a job with another agency and have no mention of his misdeeds anywhere in his record. When asked why he left his last job all he has to say is "I resigned." What a joke.
The third agent was fired for cause. Hooray? Finally, a firing. There are a lot of people in Congress and across the country that believe all eleven agents should be fired, which includes one presidential candidate, Mitt Romney. And, he's right. The firings should have been undertaken as soon as the men were recalled back to the states. These federal agents had violated a number of rules and regulations that was a firing offense. Fast, swift justice should have been meted out then and there. Instead the Congress people who pander to special interests decided to have a dog and pony "see me on television" hearing.
We taxpayers shouldn't have to be paying large pensions to these corrupt, drunken agents. They should have been fired and all benefits of the job taken away.
Again, Obama, the administration and Congress are playing games with us taxpayers leaving us to pay the tab while they cover for the federal employees. Shame on them. Kudos to Romney for saying he would have fired the agents. Too bad he isn't president now. Justice would have been served.
As for the ten military personnel that were involved in this sorid mess. Punishment should be reduction in rank, a bad conduct discharge and the loss of all of future military benefits.
I said it before and I'll say it again, when other government agents or military personnel see that severe and swift punishment is handed out for wrongdoing they will think twice before committing such acts. No one wants to lose their jobs, positions and pensions and I suggest that if the morons know that is the price they had to pay, they wouldn't participate in wrongdoing. And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions. You decide
Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Federal Agents Refuse to Pay Their Prostitute. Our Money at Work Folks.
THE KUHNS REPORT
________________
LAS VEGAS:
Hello America, and how is the world treating you?
Another government boondoggle. Our government money is being spent by the United States Secret Service on prostitutes. Wow! These federal agents, at least eleven of them was tasked to fly to South America to set up security for President Obama. However, idle hands make for idle, stupid minds. Rather, than take care of the plan and coordinate security with the foreign government these idiots decided to party in sleazy nightclubs, getting snockered and down and out drunk, according to employees of the shabby, low class club. They then hired a number of prostitutes and whisk them back to their rooms at the El Caribe hotel.
And like any sex crazed, trolling John's on the street, at least two of the Secret Service agents tried to stiff the prostitute out of a $50.00 tab after they enjoyed her services throughout the night.They refused pay. What cheapskates. These secret service agents had class - -BUT, it was all fourth class.
To his credit, the director of the Secret Service acted swiftly and recalled the drunken revelers back to the states and replaced them with a new crew of agents. Folks, this is how our tax money is spent. These agents and all other "public employees" have the attitude that they are an entitled group that can fleece and spend our money for their travels, vacations and conventions without any thought to looking out for the taxpayer.
If it were me, and I was the boss of a company or business and my employees neglected and ignored their job duties that they were expected to carry out with diligence and competence, they would be gone, history, FIRED on the spot. I would tell them to find employment elsewhere telling them the gravy train was over. In this case Obama is the boss. He should "immediately "fire" these eleven federal agents. But instead what does he do? He calls for an investigation and says he will wait to see. Wait and see? What? They clearly did the crime and they should do the time. That being - -FIRED. No second chances and certainly no soft slap on the wrist. These people do not deserve to be agents and allowed to draw an over the top salary, lucrative benefits and retirement monies and pensions. It is as clear as the nose on his face. These agents were literally caught with their pants down. In fact, witnesses stepped forward telling what actually had occurred. Whatever happened to "the buck stops here? " With a swipe of a pen, Obama could have had these guys off the job and out the door within hours after receiving word of their indiscretions. But, no! Politics comes first.
Remember, years ago when the federal employee Air Traffic Controls got out of hand, President Reagan didn't take any crap. He fired all of the air traffic controller's in the country, on the spot, and hired all new people. I submit President Obama can do the same thing and fire them instead of having Congress have a dog and pony show at playing to investigate the situation just to get their mugs before the cameras.
I suggest that if president Obama would have immediately taken decisive "ACTION" and fired all of the agents, the matter would have been resolved then and there. Further you can bet that any other Secret Service agent even contemplating hiring a hooker, drinking booze until they were drunk and being a down right moron would think twice knowing that their actions would be cause for IMMEDIATE dismissal.
People, based on these secret service agents blatant actions I would guess that the Secret Service agents had did these things before. I suspect that these and others in the agency adopted this culture as a right of passage. It was so easy for them as they openly partied it up, became loud and obnoxious and topped the evening off with whore-mongering. I have no doubt that these federal agents were predisposed to do what they did.
Like the GSA, the Secret Service is using our money as their own private piggy bank. For example, one of the high ranking administrator's at GSA, Jeff Neely, spent $823,000 on a junket to Las Vegas. for his federal employee's. Christ, over $2,000 a night for a suite at the hotel. Can you believe it? Our money. This loser also told his piggy federal employees : "let's spend it while we got it and can do it." The culture of the Federal government at work folks - - - Yet when Neely was questioned about the matter by Congress he refused to answer any questions, he took the Fifth, and didn't show up the next day for questioning. That is why these lame hearing are only a kabuki dance for the politicians pandering for votes. Neely and every employee that attended the conference in Las Vegas should have been "fired", on the spot when this scam came to light. I say, that is the only way other public employees will get the message that when they scam, cheat, steal, etc., they will LOSE THEIR JOB - -no if, and, or but. Once they have to pound the pavement looking for a real job they'll have a different outlook on how hard it is to survive in the real world. - And, that's my opinion. Make up your own mind, you decide.
Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D
_______________________
Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com
________________
LAS VEGAS:
Hello America, and how is the world treating you?
Another government boondoggle. Our government money is being spent by the United States Secret Service on prostitutes. Wow! These federal agents, at least eleven of them was tasked to fly to South America to set up security for President Obama. However, idle hands make for idle, stupid minds. Rather, than take care of the plan and coordinate security with the foreign government these idiots decided to party in sleazy nightclubs, getting snockered and down and out drunk, according to employees of the shabby, low class club. They then hired a number of prostitutes and whisk them back to their rooms at the El Caribe hotel.
And like any sex crazed, trolling John's on the street, at least two of the Secret Service agents tried to stiff the prostitute out of a $50.00 tab after they enjoyed her services throughout the night.They refused pay. What cheapskates. These secret service agents had class - -BUT, it was all fourth class.
To his credit, the director of the Secret Service acted swiftly and recalled the drunken revelers back to the states and replaced them with a new crew of agents. Folks, this is how our tax money is spent. These agents and all other "public employees" have the attitude that they are an entitled group that can fleece and spend our money for their travels, vacations and conventions without any thought to looking out for the taxpayer.
If it were me, and I was the boss of a company or business and my employees neglected and ignored their job duties that they were expected to carry out with diligence and competence, they would be gone, history, FIRED on the spot. I would tell them to find employment elsewhere telling them the gravy train was over. In this case Obama is the boss. He should "immediately "fire" these eleven federal agents. But instead what does he do? He calls for an investigation and says he will wait to see. Wait and see? What? They clearly did the crime and they should do the time. That being - -FIRED. No second chances and certainly no soft slap on the wrist. These people do not deserve to be agents and allowed to draw an over the top salary, lucrative benefits and retirement monies and pensions. It is as clear as the nose on his face. These agents were literally caught with their pants down. In fact, witnesses stepped forward telling what actually had occurred. Whatever happened to "the buck stops here? " With a swipe of a pen, Obama could have had these guys off the job and out the door within hours after receiving word of their indiscretions. But, no! Politics comes first.
Remember, years ago when the federal employee Air Traffic Controls got out of hand, President Reagan didn't take any crap. He fired all of the air traffic controller's in the country, on the spot, and hired all new people. I submit President Obama can do the same thing and fire them instead of having Congress have a dog and pony show at playing to investigate the situation just to get their mugs before the cameras.
I suggest that if president Obama would have immediately taken decisive "ACTION" and fired all of the agents, the matter would have been resolved then and there. Further you can bet that any other Secret Service agent even contemplating hiring a hooker, drinking booze until they were drunk and being a down right moron would think twice knowing that their actions would be cause for IMMEDIATE dismissal.
People, based on these secret service agents blatant actions I would guess that the Secret Service agents had did these things before. I suspect that these and others in the agency adopted this culture as a right of passage. It was so easy for them as they openly partied it up, became loud and obnoxious and topped the evening off with whore-mongering. I have no doubt that these federal agents were predisposed to do what they did.
Like the GSA, the Secret Service is using our money as their own private piggy bank. For example, one of the high ranking administrator's at GSA, Jeff Neely, spent $823,000 on a junket to Las Vegas. for his federal employee's. Christ, over $2,000 a night for a suite at the hotel. Can you believe it? Our money. This loser also told his piggy federal employees : "let's spend it while we got it and can do it." The culture of the Federal government at work folks - - - Yet when Neely was questioned about the matter by Congress he refused to answer any questions, he took the Fifth, and didn't show up the next day for questioning. That is why these lame hearing are only a kabuki dance for the politicians pandering for votes. Neely and every employee that attended the conference in Las Vegas should have been "fired", on the spot when this scam came to light. I say, that is the only way other public employees will get the message that when they scam, cheat, steal, etc., they will LOSE THEIR JOB - -no if, and, or but. Once they have to pound the pavement looking for a real job they'll have a different outlook on how hard it is to survive in the real world. - And, that's my opinion. Make up your own mind, you decide.
Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D
_______________________
Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com
Friday, April 13, 2012
GSA Scandal-Outrageous-Fire All Who Attended
THE KUHNS REPORT
________________
LAS VEGAS:
Hello America, and how is the world treating you?
The government blows over $823,000 of our taxpayer money on a junket to Las Vegas. The idiots at the General Services Administration even video taped themselves in this fiasco. Christ, a mind reader, costing $3200.00 was hired to entertain for these greedy, lazy, drunken public employees. I venture to say anyone could hire a mind reader for only a few hundred dollars. The GSA employees were so piggish they spent $6,000 just for sushi.They also spent hundreds of dollars per plate of food. And booze, wow! One female employee , one of the lushes on the video was bragging how much she liked the alcohol. Others in the video talked about how they enjoyed wasting taxpayer money for their own pleasures. It should be noted also that the GSA sent an official out to Las Vegas at a cost of at least $100,000 just to scout out the the luxury vacation that they dubbed a training seminar.
People, this kind of extravagance should never, ever have occurred and then found out two years after the fact. Where's the accountability? In the private sector, on most any job, if one employee or a number of employees are scheduled for a training seminar, it includes the name of each employee scheduled to attend, the cost of lodging and meals and travel for each employee. That information goes to the company controller or financial officer FOR APPROVAL. There is no controller, financial officer or boss of any company that I'm aware of that would approve forty dollars for one shrimp on a plate or over a hundred dollars for a plate of food for breakfast, lunch or dinner. And you could be sure that the company would question a cost of $3200.00 for a mind readers act. The entire planned , (Ha, ha) training seminar should have been denied by the managers, supervisors and the administrators as the request went up the chain of command for such a trip. Who gave the okay for this trip? Who's name(s) or initials and dates were on the paperwork as it was being approved? There shouldn't have been any lag time from 2008 to 2010 for someone in authority to see that the cost of the trip was over $800,000.00.
I would think any company boss or any reasonable, prudent person would want to know how much a trip, vacation, or seminar would cost them, (to the penny) , before they allowed anyone to embark on the trip.
The GSA also spent more of our tax money on a grab bag of expensive gifts for their employees each year. There were high end Ipod, tablets, electronics, and other items. And, believe it or not they are still awarding the expensive gifts to the employees. I ask you, what company in the private sector spends tens of thousands of dollars on bonus gifts for their employees? You would be hard pressed to find many. Folks, it's very easy to spend other peoples money instead of your own and these morons at the GSA and other government public employees spend like a drunken sailor with our tax dollars and then have the arrogance to brag about it. They indeed feel entitled, for whatever reason.
Hell, President Reagan, with a stroke of a pen fired everyone of the Air Traffic Controllers when they demanded too much money and benefits. Once those air traffic controller's lost their job they realized how good they had it. They sniveled and moaned but they brought it on themselves. President Reagan then hired new controllers for less salary and benefits.
I suggest that if this administration had a backbone President Obama would use the power of his pen and fire these entrenched government employees and start from square one again. There are tens of thousands of job applicants waiting in line that could fill the positions for less money and benefits and would be happy to do the job.
This administration has the idea that our taxpayer money is their own private piggy bank which they raid and spread around willy-nilly. Even though the head of the GSA and two others were forced to resign, I say that's not enough. The few hundred employees that attended this $800,000 romp should be fired, "IMMEDIATELY." The video was very clear that the attendees didn't care one bit about the cost of the trip. They relished in the fact that they were gaming and cheating us taxpayers.
Each government agencies should be mandated to have a committee that can be held responsible for the review of each and every trip, party, training session or seminar by their employees. Those same committee members should be instructed to go over each and every expense for the occasion, prior to the trip. I predict that if such a committee for each government agency was required there would be no way any agency could blow close to a million dollars on ONE trip.
My view is that these federal employees as well as all public employees should be reined in. It is these powerful public employee unions that are causing cities and states across the country to go belly up. The public employees are milking the system with their total disregard for anyone but themselves. IT HAS TO STOP. Look at Greece, it's public employees being payed over generous salaries, pensions and retirements brought the country to it's knees. Italy, Portugal and Ireland are all in the same bag and it won't be long before the United States will follow in those European countries footsteps. - And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions, you decide.
Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
_______________________
Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com
________________
LAS VEGAS:
Hello America, and how is the world treating you?
The government blows over $823,000 of our taxpayer money on a junket to Las Vegas. The idiots at the General Services Administration even video taped themselves in this fiasco. Christ, a mind reader, costing $3200.00 was hired to entertain for these greedy, lazy, drunken public employees. I venture to say anyone could hire a mind reader for only a few hundred dollars. The GSA employees were so piggish they spent $6,000 just for sushi.They also spent hundreds of dollars per plate of food. And booze, wow! One female employee , one of the lushes on the video was bragging how much she liked the alcohol. Others in the video talked about how they enjoyed wasting taxpayer money for their own pleasures. It should be noted also that the GSA sent an official out to Las Vegas at a cost of at least $100,000 just to scout out the the luxury vacation that they dubbed a training seminar.
People, this kind of extravagance should never, ever have occurred and then found out two years after the fact. Where's the accountability? In the private sector, on most any job, if one employee or a number of employees are scheduled for a training seminar, it includes the name of each employee scheduled to attend, the cost of lodging and meals and travel for each employee. That information goes to the company controller or financial officer FOR APPROVAL. There is no controller, financial officer or boss of any company that I'm aware of that would approve forty dollars for one shrimp on a plate or over a hundred dollars for a plate of food for breakfast, lunch or dinner. And you could be sure that the company would question a cost of $3200.00 for a mind readers act. The entire planned , (Ha, ha) training seminar should have been denied by the managers, supervisors and the administrators as the request went up the chain of command for such a trip. Who gave the okay for this trip? Who's name(s) or initials and dates were on the paperwork as it was being approved? There shouldn't have been any lag time from 2008 to 2010 for someone in authority to see that the cost of the trip was over $800,000.00.
I would think any company boss or any reasonable, prudent person would want to know how much a trip, vacation, or seminar would cost them, (to the penny) , before they allowed anyone to embark on the trip.
The GSA also spent more of our tax money on a grab bag of expensive gifts for their employees each year. There were high end Ipod, tablets, electronics, and other items. And, believe it or not they are still awarding the expensive gifts to the employees. I ask you, what company in the private sector spends tens of thousands of dollars on bonus gifts for their employees? You would be hard pressed to find many. Folks, it's very easy to spend other peoples money instead of your own and these morons at the GSA and other government public employees spend like a drunken sailor with our tax dollars and then have the arrogance to brag about it. They indeed feel entitled, for whatever reason.
Hell, President Reagan, with a stroke of a pen fired everyone of the Air Traffic Controllers when they demanded too much money and benefits. Once those air traffic controller's lost their job they realized how good they had it. They sniveled and moaned but they brought it on themselves. President Reagan then hired new controllers for less salary and benefits.
I suggest that if this administration had a backbone President Obama would use the power of his pen and fire these entrenched government employees and start from square one again. There are tens of thousands of job applicants waiting in line that could fill the positions for less money and benefits and would be happy to do the job.
This administration has the idea that our taxpayer money is their own private piggy bank which they raid and spread around willy-nilly. Even though the head of the GSA and two others were forced to resign, I say that's not enough. The few hundred employees that attended this $800,000 romp should be fired, "IMMEDIATELY." The video was very clear that the attendees didn't care one bit about the cost of the trip. They relished in the fact that they were gaming and cheating us taxpayers.
Each government agencies should be mandated to have a committee that can be held responsible for the review of each and every trip, party, training session or seminar by their employees. Those same committee members should be instructed to go over each and every expense for the occasion, prior to the trip. I predict that if such a committee for each government agency was required there would be no way any agency could blow close to a million dollars on ONE trip.
My view is that these federal employees as well as all public employees should be reined in. It is these powerful public employee unions that are causing cities and states across the country to go belly up. The public employees are milking the system with their total disregard for anyone but themselves. IT HAS TO STOP. Look at Greece, it's public employees being payed over generous salaries, pensions and retirements brought the country to it's knees. Italy, Portugal and Ireland are all in the same bag and it won't be long before the United States will follow in those European countries footsteps. - And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions, you decide.
Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
_______________________
Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com
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