The General Services Administration blew through $820,000 in taxpayers’ money in a lavish ”team building” trip to Las Vegas, and President Barack Obama is “apoplectic” at the news, according to the president’s campaign advisor, David Axelrod. Obama, he says, has devoted his efforts to saving “tens of billions of dollars” in cutting waste, fraud and inefficiency in government. Yet under President Obama’s leadership, government spending keeps growing irresponsibly, and neither he nor his allies in Congress are doing anything about it.
The latest example came last week when Democratic leadership in the Senate again passed the buck on enacting a budget — on April 29, it will have been three years since the Senate last passed a budget resolution. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND),whose job it is to shepherd a budget through the Senate, said of his decision: “This is the wrong time to vote in committee. This is the wrong time to vote on the floor. I don’t think we will be prepared to vote before the election.” Conrad also said that offering a budget would be futile and “would do little to move us closer to a bipartisan agreement that can actually be adopted.”
In other words, budgeting is hard work that he’d rather not do, especially in an election year. Of course, 2011 was not an election year, and yet the Senate failed to pass a budget then, too.
The money that isn’t being budgeted belongs to the American people, and their representatives in the Senate have decided once again that it’s easier to keep on spending without restraint than it is to be responsible to their constituents back home. It’s that very attitude that has led to a government so big and so out of control that scandals like the one in the GSA are able to occur.
The hundreds of thousands of dollars blown in the GSA’s Vegas trip, though, is chump change compared to the hundreds of millions wasted in President Obama’s green jobs stimulus efforts. We all know the story of the bankrupt solar energy company Solyndra and the $520 million taxpayer-funded loan guarantee that went down the drain. But the latest example of wanton waste is Ecotality — a company that manufactures charging stations for the president’s much-favored electric vehicles. Ecotality received more than $115 million to install those charging stations, yet as Heritage’s Lachlan Markay reports, the company is far behind schedule. Now it’s under investigation for insider trading and is facing serious financial difficulties. Even so, the DOE decided to grant the company $26 million in additional funding.
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To the writer of this article, you forgot to mention that it’s easier for Moooo to go on vacations also, much easier for her to have fun at our expense, when most of us couldn’t take a vacation at all. There is no way for us to take one, as she and her litter are always spending the money that we send to her and her lying and robbing husband for the benifit of the NATION, not for her vacations and over priced shoes……..and over priced everything else. No, they all party at our expense, and then make fun of us for being “stupid” enough to send them the money to do so! And she says that we have been “brought out of the darkness”! I wonder what she means by that, for where I am sitting, the future just keeps getting darker and darker! Being as I haven’t the money to go and eat at McDonalds most of the time! I do well just to eat beans and cornbread most of the time, and even that is getting a little too expensive! This government, if you want to call it that, is far more than just bloated, it is something that I do not beleive there is even a word for! Beyond bloated is the best I can come up with, and it stinks as a dead, bloated CORPSE STINKS! dead and deader if we don’t put a stop to this “government” fiasco!!!