What can we learn from allegations against a half-dozen supervisors in the Government Services Administration for wasting, and perhaps stealing, taxpayer dollars on foolishness in Las Vegas, and against a dozen Secret Service agents for dangerously procuring prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia, while there to prepare for a visit by the president?
If the allegations are true – and they seem to be – the behavior of these government workers reflects a view of government hardly consistent with the idea of limited government and public trust. The United States is the only nation in history founded on the principle that people voluntarily gave up some personal freedom in order to form a central government of limited powers and for limited purposes. Those purposes, according to the Constitution, consist primarily of the maintenance of personal freedom, natural rights and property rights, civil liberties and commercial liberties.
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2 comments:
This recent expose of waste and abuse at the GSA is just the very tippy tip tip of teh iceburg.
Anyone who has ever been remotley involved with a government entity should be well aware of the waste and abuse.
After all, these people think there is an endless supply of money.
Just watch how they spend money like fools at the end of the fiscal year so they don't get a budget cut in the next year.
An appropriate quote:
“I wonder if the $3,200 mind reader told G.S.A. officials that blowing more than $800,000 on a Vegas conference for a few hundred bureaucrats would get them fired?”
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