Posted on 09/20/2011 5:44:12 PM PDT by mandaladon
At a Justice Department conference, auditors said Monday in a report that doesn’t come close to topping the Pentagon’s legendary $400 hammer and $600 toilet seat but does, the auditors said, expose “wasteful or extravagant spending.’’
Cynthia Schnedar, the Justice Department’s acting inspector general, said in the report that some conferences featured “costly meals, refreshments and themed breaks” and that Justice failed to “minimize” costs as required by federal and internal guidelines.
Among the examples: Beef Wellington hors d’oeuvres at $7.32 per serving; a Cracker Jacks, popcorn and candy snack for $32 per person and coffee costing more than $1 per ounce, making a single cup $8.24.
And the $16 muffins? They were served at a 2009 legal training conference in Washington by Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review. The report describes the $4,200 spent on 250 muffins and $2,880 on 300 cookies and brownies (nearly $10 each) as “very costly.’’
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“Let them eat muffins!”
And we dont know the Half of it.
Boehner should get PWC in to go over the entire Executive Branch.
Then Congress.
Kickbacks or over price items used to cover for purchases of booze and “entertainment” (hookers).
A the company where I work we have been under tremendous budget restrictions for many years. There are no “free” goodies at meetings. We just had a department picnic last week - had to pay $10 each for the lunch. Time for those in government to start living like the rest of us.
I’m not surprised in the least. When you are spending someone elses money who gives a damn?!
Well, that settles it.
In order to “cut spending,” we absolutely have to...
REPEAL THE GOVERNMENT-RUN MEDICAL CARE BILL THEY PASSED.
The problem is the “free market” and capitalism. Your company makes you pay $10 for your lunch - just so they can make a bigger profit. (Well, that - and hopefully keep the doors open and not lay too many folks off).
But - what would you rather have? Pay your own $10 for lunch, or get a $16 muffin for free!? Obviously it would be best if the government ran all companies! “A muffin in every pot”!
Yep, and then piss and moan about the “rich” not paying their fair share. Hypocrites.
“themed breaks”
How gauche.
At what point are the Republicans in the House going to expose and stop this reprehensible corruption?
Didn’t have time to read the article- Are they talking about Nancy’s plane trips back to California?
themed breaks
http://www.austinconventioncentercatering.com/menus/themedbreaks.html
http://www.fscateringscottsdale.com/themed-breaks.htm
http://www.wilshiregrand.com/meetings&events/documents/Breakwithoutprices.pdf
It’s just more of the arrogance of the Beverly Hillbillies mentality of the Food Stamp President’s administration.
Audit report...
A sterling example of the “trickle down” theory in practice. The First Family Dog has his own jet transport, Nancy Pelosi gets VIP treatment including top/top shelf booze, exclusive choclates, and ultra-expensive canpes on her “private” jet - one owned/staffed by the taxpayer - to shuftie her staff and family back to the Left Coast - or wherever.....So why shouldn’t the “worker bees” enjoy those double-diget muffins and $1/oz coffees ? Isn’t that proportional ? >PS
Even the auditor’s report noted the irony that Justice was failing to “minimize” costs as required by guidelines put in place after an earlier audit in 2007, when the department had drawn criticism for serving platters of Swedish meatballs at $4 per meatball.
Don't you mean 'pot in every muffin'?
Maybe the muffins meet MILSPEC and can survive re-entry from a geostationary orbit.
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