A Justice Department inspector general audit released last week has generated a lot of buzz on Capitol Hill over the suggestion that the agency has been spending too much on food at taxpayer-funded conferences. Some have interpreted the report to mean that DoJ spent as much as $16 per muffin at one event — which is pure fiction.
But to hear Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) tell the tale, this is the worst example of extravagant “elitist” spending in government since Marie Antoinette declared, “Let them eat cake!” The Iowa conservative even said yesterday that heads should roll over the incident:
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Republicans are the ultimate red herring finders when it comes to government waste. Every Republican I know constantly uses this kind of piddly **** as examples of how to "balance the budget". It's like a guy chastising his wife about spending too much because she went out and got a latte that morning, when he goes out and buys a $50,000 bass boat. That same is true with the uproar on the right about Solyndra. Its 500 million, yeah thats some real money, but its tiny compared to what the Pentagon will waist in any given month. They wipe their ass with that kind of taxpayer money. Yet you never heard a big Republican uproar when during the Bush years a government audit found that the Pentagon was so wasteful they could not account for 1 trillion dollars of the taxpayers money.
Personally, when I am faced with a huge problem at work, I look at the big stuff first, and I pretty much ignore red herrings like 16 dollar muffins until I have taken care of the big stuff that actually matters.
and this is exactly why we are in debt. Its just $xxx. Your statement of "big stuff that actually matters", indicates to me that you think the small stuff doesn't matter. It all matters big or little. If you added up all the small stuff, wonder if it would be big enough.
I have said in other posts that the Feds need to get the US fiscal house in order. Yet so many want to give them more tax money.
Is his staff so incompetent that they didn't check this out?
Sen. Grassley Says Heads Should ‘Roll’ Over Non-Existent $16 Muffin Scandal | ThinkProgress
heads should roll for putting on costly events such as this...there is no need for them.
and this is exactly why we are in debt. Its just $xxx. Your statement of "big stuff that actually matters", indicates to me that you think the small stuff doesn't matter.
It all matters big or little.
If you added up all the small stuff, wonder if it would be big enough.
All waste should be addressed. It's why we need across the boards cuts. The thing is, even when their are cases of large wastes of money, nobody is held accountable. It's only a muffin.....It's only a scrapped multi million dollar weapons program.......it's only multi millions we can't account for......
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