[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

I have a friend who feels the need to leave her position as a consultant in a much needed area of human services because much of her work comes from the federal government, and she can no longer accept being a guest speaker at conferences of federal employees where everyone is staying at 4 and 5 star hotels and living it up at taxpayer expense.

It's a shame, because she has a lot to offer in an area where good people like her are badly needed.

[Lumper20]

AFGE and 4-5 star hotels is a slap in the damn face to all of us.

[paul51]

life is grand when the little people are paying for it. we deserve it because we allow it.

[married21]

I doubt the government employees were paying the “rack rate” for their rooms. They were more likely paying the “government rate”.

When I was a federal employee, a very lowly law clerk, back in the 1980s, I got to stay at the Ritz Carlton on a work trip because they charged government employees the “government rate”, which was set just low enough to fit into the per diem limits. (The hotel was newly remodeled and was trying to get business back. They only offered that special rate for a few months.) Of course, I couldn’t afford a meal there. There’s no government discount for the food.