A Government Accountability Office audit has uncovered rampant abuse of government issued purchase cards (credit cards, debit cards). The audit also found that government agencies could not account for nearly $2 million worth of items, which included computer servers, laptop computers, iPods and digital cameras. Nearly half of transactions made during the audit period were improper, and the audit condemned the government-wide "rate of failure" as "unacceptably high."
Hell, as a taxpayer, I condemn this abuse to be theft and submit that all abusers should do jail time like the common thieves they are.
There is a continuous outcry against corporate fraud, against abuse of power, against fiscal abuse, against moral transgressions, and the list goes on and on. Yet when many, I repeat, many of these same people who complain are given the responsibility of a credit card to make valid, necessary, job-related purchases the temptation to abuse this trust becomes too great.
I am sure each individual can come up with some justification for using my money to pay for Internet dating services, iPods, expensive clothing, a $13,500 dinner, lingerie to be worn during jungle training in Ecuador, gambling debts, mortgage payments, and gasoline purchases. But you know what? Their feeble reasoning is not good enough.
I am sure they will each tell you they felt guilty about doing it, at first. But then it became too easy to continue and too hard to stop.
You may ask why this free access to funds was given so freely in the first place? To streamline federal purchasing. To make things easier for paper pushers. Limits were of course imposed but no one enforces them. This abuse has become endemic to government employees who consider this money free for the taking. It involves Postal service employees, Department of Defense employees, State Department employees, local government employees, etc. Our public servants. People we are forced to trust to keep our government services operating smoothly and efficiently, for us.
In a society where the typical household does not have the discipline to maintain a savings plan and goes through life living on credit that has resulted in the largest credit deficit in history, this idea of giving credit cards to individuals was an extremely stupid idea.
Even in categories that are considered job appropriate the purchases far exceeded maximum allowances. The purchaser totally disregarded the maximum through some flawed and bogus reasoning process familiar to thieves everywhere and the person or office charged with scrutinizing and authorizing or disallowing the purchases bought into it. It has become so universally accepted that this money does not come out of their pockets that spending it has become second nature without any regard to price or necessity. I have news for you jerks the money does come out of your pocket, and mine. It comes out of every taxpayers pocket. It is a major reason taxes keep going up every year.
This amounts to blatant theft and as a taxpayer, I am mad as hell. There are many taxpayers losing their homes, struggling to make ends meet, working two jobs to feed and clothe their children, caring for their aging parents because they can’t afford proper healthcare and these degenerates justify spending my money on porn sites, expensive clothing and dining out. This is the lowest level that public servants can reach and heads should roll over this and I am willing to bet that only token punishment will ever be handed out. The money is gone. We taxpayers still pay the bills. The problem will never end. How can we ever look at any government employee and not think how much of my money have you stolen today?
I am ashamed and disgusted to be a part of a society that offers these adults as the best examples of our public servants.
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