At last! An entitlement program that Republicans love!

[tanyev]

Report: Millions wasted on gov't travel

HOPE YEN
AP News
Oct 03, 2007 12:14 EDT

Federal employees wasted at least $146 million over a one-year period on business- and first-class airline tickets, in some cases simply because they felt entitled to the perk, congressional investigators say.

A draft report by the Government Accountability Office, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, is the first to examine compliance with travel rules across the federal government following reports of extensive abuse of premium-class travel by Pentagon and State Department employees.

The review of travel spending by more than a dozen agencies from July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2006, found 67 percent of premium-class travel by executives or their employees, worth at least $146 million, was unauthorized or otherwise unjustified.

Among the worst offenders: the State Department, whose employees typically fly abroad on official business.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2007/10/report_millions_wasted_on_govt.php

[Totally Committed]

1. And here I was thinking that "No Billionaire Left Behind" had become law....

They fly first class while infrastructure collapses, cities drown, every child gets left behind, no universal healthcare is passed, the deficit has ballooned to uninaginable heights, the dollar has fallen to unimaginable lows, the housing market has collapsed completely... AND we are paying trillions for illegal wars for oil. But, they are flying first class.

It's kind of like giving tax breaks to the top 1% of the wealthiest Americans.... oh, wait... :eyes:

TC

[tanyev]

3. It reminds me of the old joke where the punchline is

"We've already established what you are, now we're just quibbling over the price" ...

Republicans are not really against entitlement programs, they are just quibbling over who should be the recipients.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Make them pay it back. That's what happens to normal people who work for private companies.

[tanyev]

4. Kick.