GSA Scandal-Outrageous-Fire All Who Attended

THE KUHNS REPORT
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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.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com