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Videos of $800K GSA conference surface
Politico ^ | 4/7/12 | BYRON TAU

Posted on 04/07/2012 10:46:24 AM PDT by ColdOne

The Huffington Post obtains a series of embarrassing videos taken at the General Services Administration's 2010 Western Region Conference that show GSA employees destroying office property, drinking, singing "Luck be a Lady," flashings dollar bills, rapping about taxpayer-funded travel and government pay raises, blowing bubbles through hula hoops, and palling around with an "angry clown."

The conference made headlines this week when an Inspector General report found a pattern of excessive spending, waste and possible fraud on the pricey, taxpayer-funded Las Vegas conference, where organizers went out of their way to organize a lavish,

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1 posted on 04/07/2012 10:46:25 AM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Video is just a cheap knock-off of a B movie about IT guys and some Chili’s-like restaurant....I won’t trust you again. I don’t like being tricked into going to places like Huff...a pox on you!


2 posted on 04/07/2012 10:51:23 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: ColdOne

7/8 of an iceberg is submerged.

I know plenty of gummint types who have been to Vegas more than Doyle Brunson. They may not always engage in expensive shenanigans but it can’t be coincidence that they choose Sin City repeatedly for their meetings.


3 posted on 04/07/2012 10:51:23 AM PDT by relictele (We are officially OUT of other people's money!)
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To: ColdOne

It’s Bush’s fault.


4 posted on 04/07/2012 10:51:30 AM PDT by duckman (Go Newt...)
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To: ColdOne

My letter to Boehner is in the mail. The average American family goes through quite a bit to live and pay taxes. This is the most outrageous and in your face display of government corruption with unmitigated arrogance, I have ever seen. I would love to never pay another cent in taxes until this crap in DC is stopped. Gone on long enough.


5 posted on 04/07/2012 10:55:40 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: duckman
Yup. The diversion tactic by Obama. Where's the change that Obama promised us? Obama was supposed to be better, not worse. There's that annoying “change” word again.

Its Government's fault. Government unchecked and out of control. How much of the trillion dollar budget is wasted on fraud, theft and excess spending?

We will never know because no one is willing to monitor the spending. Why not cheat? There is unlimited money from taxpayers. Just raise taxes or just charge it on the bank of China credit card.

6 posted on 04/07/2012 10:59:17 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: ColdOne
Not condoning the destruction..but the computer they were bashing (ala office space fax machine) looked like an OLD large PC...the case and components were probably obsolete.

Love that seen from the actual movie...

7 posted on 04/07/2012 11:01:46 AM PDT by conservativehusker (Ben Nelson makes me ashamed to be a Nebraskan. (Kinda like Bill Calahan once did))
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To: conservativehusker

seen = scene


8 posted on 04/07/2012 11:02:29 AM PDT by conservativehusker (Ben Nelson makes me ashamed to be a Nebraskan. (Kinda like Bill Calahan once did))
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To: ColdOne

Over 800 grand gets blown and the Prez, Congressional pubbies and rats alike are outraged.

Sneeze over a trillion? Almost Crickets.


9 posted on 04/07/2012 11:03:02 AM PDT by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves.)
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To: ColdOne
Video at link

All of these videos are on youtube. Posting a link directly to them would be nice.....

10 posted on 04/07/2012 11:06:08 AM PDT by ScreamingFist (Quiet the Idiot)
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To: ColdOne

Are the Obama’s on vacation or something this week? Or are they throwing a giant pagan ritual party that will cost taxpayers much more on Monday? Is the WH press corps asking about the costs for Monday’s egg hunt?


11 posted on 04/07/2012 11:09:01 AM PDT by petitfour
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To: conservativehusker

One of the symptoms of FPD (Freeper Posting Disability) is the degradation of communication between the brain and the fingers.

Happens to me almost daily. As of yet, Social Security won’t cover it, so cures are hard in coming.


12 posted on 04/07/2012 11:09:44 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Gaffer; ColdOne

Well... if there is no real video, then there must be another reason that would explain why the head of the GSA was ‘fired’ so quickly. There must be something very damaging they don’t want out.


13 posted on 04/07/2012 11:14:49 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: ColdOne

There are some key truths hidden there. Note where he is passing out the cash bonuses, the minority women get theirs, but there is nothing for the middle aged white guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vofWkCJvbDo


14 posted on 04/07/2012 12:24:27 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Jacquerie

Just like the bipartisan outrage over the 160 mil in bonuses to the bankers, while Obama shoveled 820 billion to the same folks to the sound of crickets.


15 posted on 04/07/2012 12:28:39 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Gaffer

Stupid attempt at a remake of the movies Office Space and Groundhog Day.


16 posted on 04/07/2012 12:31:31 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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