VA Hospital Director Paid $288K In ‘Relocation Payments’ To Move 140 Miles

The Daily Caller ^ | 03/25/2015 | Chuck Ross

[MediaMole]

Relocation expenses are not supposed to include buying a house for the employee.

[Kozak]

The whole government is just one big criminal conspiracy.

[Rome2000]

Live it up while you still can apparatchiks.

The party will soon be over.

[kiryandil]

But that hefty repayment is nearly 160 percent of what Rubens earned in base pay all of last year, raising questions over what exactly that money could have gone towards.

Oh, for crying out loud! Do you whiny conservatives think that buying pizzas & soda for the moving guys is FREE?

What a suspicious crew of Debbie Downsiders...

[Enten]

It is not real money....it is tax payers’ money.

[seawolf101]

B. Hussein Obama spends millions of dollars on a vacation trip and gets to use air force 1 so what’s $288K for relocation expenses. That’s why the democrats love to raise people’s taxes. When the USA goes bankrupt, not if, it will not be a surprise.

[PA Engineer]

I lived in the mistake on the Potomac for a couple of years. I commuted regularly to my corporate office in Philadelphia.

She could have commuted by train with a generous travel allowance for over 3 years at the relocation rate.

Our government is not fixable.

[TurboZamboni]

St. Paul school superintendent to get $40k for moving ten miles
September 7, 2011
http://www.examiner.com/article/st-paul-school-superintendent-to-get-40k-for-moving-ten-miles

it’s hard out there for a pimp.

[Jim from C-Town]

What did they do, buy him a new house?

[demshateGod]

The American people are being robbed.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Rather masculine looking.

[originalbuckeye]

If Big Media was even remotely interested in holding the Obama Admin accountable for ALL THEIR SCANDALS, they could do it. But it sounds like the Obama Admin denies access if anyone reports the truth about the Admin. BIG MEDIA COULD STOP ALL THIS! They just choose not to do so.

[cincinnati65]

"...a VA spokesman said that there was nothing inappropriate with the spending."

And with that one statement, I know I am a conservative at heart. If you can't see anything inappropriate for $288K for a 140 mile move, you need another job.

[Rio]

“his” name is apparently Diana. Something is unnatural.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Rubens, who previously served as the D.C.-based deputy undersecretary for field operations...people in these high level administrative government jobs like "deputy undersecretary" are all politically-connected buddies, the government equivalent of the old-boys network - the only qualification she needs for the job is to know the right people, and if she screws up in Philadelphia she'll get another couple 100k to move to Missouri or Cleveland or somewhere - just one more example of governmental-cronyism......

[Kickass Conservative]

I remember the Good Old Days when we considered the Ruling Class to be 535 Congress Critters, the President and the Vice President.

I think there are about Five Million, if not Ten Million of them now.

Time to build a bigger Pig Pen and a new Slaughter House.

[austinaero]

This is the same VA run by the bastid that lied about being in special forces, right? Robert MacDonald I believe his name is.

[Two Kids' Dad]

I’d move the dyke for half that price and it would still be over a thousand bucks a mile. if the government’s gonna keep giving away stupid amounts of money, I want some of it. Hell, the government can pay for a few FReepathons.

[Safetgiver]

House HELL. From DC to Philly, they bought her MARYLAND!!!