Posted on 04/18/2012 7:33:51 AM PDT by magellan
The senior government executive who organized the lavish Las Vegas conference at the center of a General Services Administration spending scandal took dozens of trips for the agency. The boss's wife accompanied him on some of them — and taxpayers picked up the tab.
Deborah Neely wasn't always just sharing husband Jeffrey E. Neely's hotel rooms at resorts from Las Vegas to the Pacific islands. She handled party arrangements, directed event planners to spend government money and arranged lodging for relatives on the GSA trip to Las Vegas in 2010, an unusual role revealed in transcripts of interviews that the agency's inspector general's office conducted with Jeffrey Neely, as well as in congressional hearings.
Her role as the "first lady of Region 9" — as an investigator called her — shows a management culture in GSA's Pacific Rim region that not only allowed the $823,000 Las Vegas gathering for 300 people and overspending on other conferences but also openly condoned perks for managers and their family members.
"Mr. Neely and his wife believe they were some sort of agency royalty who used taxpayer funds to bankroll their lavish lifestyle," Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.), the ranking Democrat on the oversight panel, said Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Read the whole thing. But take your blood pressure medicine first.
Deborah Neely just doin’ a Michelle.
GSA - 12,000 employees who service only the Gov’t has an annual budget of $26.3 Billion
NASA - ~300,000 employees with an annual budget of $18.4 Billion and serve the US and mankind.
One of these has created countless jobs in Spin-off techology, helps mankind through advances in science, medical, chemistry, computer science, software and material sciences; the other is a group of parasites.
Am I the only one who has a problem with this?
The rot begins at the head. This administration is evil and it is rotten through and through.
The heads of these Regions are political appointees of the administration. I wonder who recommended the regional administrator to the president...hum, it is in SF...now then, whom is the local rep, Queen Pelousy and if one looks at the Senate, we have two more dem losers....Boxer and Fienstein. I would begin looking there for an answer to my question of whose political patronage this job was. Furthermore, the history of GSA has its roots in the dems, mostly from the big cities...NY and Chicago used to run the show.
When I point out that if the amount of money being spent, increases, year over year, there is no way that the federal budget was cut.
The feds look at little departments and say, see we cut $100 in this budget, but yes overall the total budget went up by a .....
The federal employee, even the conservative ones, have a compartment in their heads, which say, we must increase entitlement spending just to stay even.
They are so ingrained in the "base line budgeting process" that they cannot understand, real cuts.
A Grifter Government. Those who “work” for it often are the enemy of a Free America.
amen
NO...you aren’t....and NASA is being cut....with your permission I want to post what you posted on my Facebook...pretty please....
Apparently this an excerpt from a song by rapper 50 Cent.
By all means ...
I take that as a very high compliment ... thank you.
I keep hitting on the same thing in hopes that, SOMEDAY, enough people will see and understand what I am saying.
Our government is corrupt and irreparably broken and we need to hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and reset it back to what the Founders originally intended. They left us a perfect government that worked pretty well for 200 years and, unfortunately, they had to leave the control and care of the government to people with lesser ability and lesser intelligence.
Regional Administrators of most federal agencies are political appointees—invariably ignorant hacks with ties to Congress and/or the White House.
Those positions need to be abolished across the board.
As much as I might enjoy blaming Obama for this and the Sec. Service stuff, I think to do so implies that it will all stop when he's out of office and I don't think it will. This is a Washington problem. This is a Federal Government problem that is bigger than party.
The sense of ‘entitlement’ isn't just a Dem problem, it is a Federal Government problem.
That said, Obama absolutely embodies that attitude and arrogance which is at the heart of this mess.
Actually, since Obama killed the space program and ordered NASA to help Muslims appreciate their "contributions". I guess "contributions" is the code word for murder and destruction. They not only don't like Christians, they don't even like other Muslims that are different sects.
So, why does NASA have to focus on helping murderers "appreciate" their "contributions"??
Actually, since Obama killed the space program and ordered NASA to help Muslims appreciate their "contributions", NASA isn't doing anything to help anyone do anything. I guess "contributions" is the code word for murder and destruction. They not only don't like Christians, they don't even like other Muslims that are different sects.
So, why does NASA have to focus on helping murderers "appreciate" their "contributions"??
Lock 'em up and throw away the key.
It is hip-hop speak. I can only guess the two were fans of hip-hop music, especially 50-Cent (a.k.a., "Fiddy"), since the line is a quote from the lyrics of one of his "songs".
See this article (and embedded video):
(commemorative token honoring the Stimulus)
Brewster's Millions
That damn token reminds me of when Brewter bought the priceless stamp and then used it on a postcard.
Brilliant. Really puts things in to perspective. I wonder if there is a breakdown like that for other areas of government. Spending per employee.
I believe NASA directly employs 25,000 or so employees. I am not sure how many contract employees there are. Maybe that's the 300,000 number.
Still it's shocking the GSA has a budget of $26B -- that's insane. I like to see the government issue a breakdown of expenditures by these parasites.
I got the 300,000 number from this site.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_employees_does_NASA_have
You are correct, that a bulk of them work for NASA as Gov’t contractors; however my point was “How many people does it take to complete the mission assigned, per Gov’t division?”. I am not aware of Gov’t Contractors assigned to the GSA - however, that could also prove interesting. Given the extremely limited scope of operations governed by the GSA, it seems wildly bloated “as-is”.
NASA has been gutted by the current administration, in fact we need to “hitch a ride” if we want to send anyone up to the International Space Station, compliments of Obama.
This criminal wife and her criminal husband will soon be going to prison, and not together. Sickening abuse!
This criminal wife and her criminal husband will soon be going to prison, and not together. Sickening abuse!
Wildly bloated is an understatement!!
Do you know if there is a document listing detailed expenditures by the GSA?
Every government agency should have their budgets reduced by 75% in absolute terms. Also, 80% of the government workers should be fired and their pensions revoked.
The damage done to our Republic by the government parasite class is incalculable. They are enemies of Freedom.
Who cares? It’s just government money. Obama can get more from his stash.
What is Neely’s salary at GSA?
IIRC, $170,000 plus bonuses.
And John Neely is still collecting his salary while on leave. What travesty!
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