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October 14, 2004
Taxpayer Soaking Administration Strikes Again
We all know Democrats are the ones who create wasteful, expensive, useless, and ever-growing government programs--right?
The government agency in charge of airport security spent nearly a half-million dollars on an awards ceremony at a lavish hotel, including $81,000 for plaques and $500 for cheese displays, according to an internal report obtained by The Associated Press.
Awards were presented to 543 Transportation Security Administration employees and 30 organizations, including a "lifetime achievement award" for one worker with the 2-year-old agency. Almost $200,000 was spent on travel and lodging for attendees.
The investigation by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general, Clark Kent Ervin, also found the TSA gave its senior executives bonuses averaging $16,000, higher than at any other federal government agency, and failed to provide adequate justification in more than a third of the 88 cases examined.
It seems, then, that Republican-created government programs can compete with the best of the Democrat-created ones.
Republicans say the agency has grown far larger than they envisioned when it was created following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Well, who woulda thunk it? A government agency growing beyond what its creators envisioned? The TSA must be working overtime to grow so rapidly in only three years, too.
Read the whole thing here, if you can stomach it.
Thanks, party of fiscal responsibility!
(Link courtesy Drudge Report.)
Posted by Mike Tennant at October 14, 2004 10:13 AM