Posted on 10/27/2010 12:32:25 PM PDT by Andrea19
... Currently, the site only displays information from the Health and Human Services Department’s data, but will be adding more in the coming weeks. What the site has to say is pretty astounding: almost 400 Department employees have spent over $100,000 each since 2005 for travel expenses. In fact, the federal government spends over $14 billion on travel alone.
As one may imagine, there has been a large amount of resistance from the government in providing the data necessary for the site. This is exactly why we believe this type of information should be open and available to taxpayers without a FOIA request - those footing the bill for luxurious travel of federal employees should be able to track, dollar for dollar, how much they are paying in these expenses. This is especially true in light of what has been a poorly-administrated system of federal extravagance...
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WOW! and I had to pay over 45 THOUSAND in taxes last year.
I think this number grossly underestimates just how much air lift is required to move personnel, equipment, mail and so forth.
So, what does it relate to?
Your tax dollars at work. Perhaps an unofficial airline bailout is at work? ;)
Most of them travel on cheap airlines and stay at cheap hotels, and have little control over where and when they are ordered to travel.
Cut my federal govt spouse’s travel budget, please
I am bloody tired of him traveling on Sundays to attend meetings Monday- Friday and getting him home late Friday on the redeye. We miss him. We miss our weekends.
Anyone who thinks federal govt jobs are cushy, can go apply for one.
I agree. Our govt guys don’t get a choice on their travel.
They absolutely do. Nothing but the most expensive/best training and certifications galore (e.g., Carnegie Institute) and all the conferences. What I don’t understand at all is how they can use government credit cards for personal items and not have it accounted for (to the tune of millions). In many companies, if you use your corporate credit card for anything that doesn’t match up to your expense reports, you are reprimanded.
Using Federal Government math, $100,000K in Federal Employee travel actually increased the revenue to the government by ~$8,000 (~8% sales tax on the transactions).
-I’m sure DU lurkers here will say “gee, that makes sense..”
As a federal civilian employee, I rode in Huey choppers and C-130s in Vietnam, smaller aircraft in the middle east, more C-130s and C-141s in Latin America. It’s not all cushy. ((But I did get some good flights in.))
You cannot ...
Just accept the fact that, anything the federal government does, costs more. Contractors and vendors charge full retail for their products and services. Same with travel.
There are some savings, but the Federal Travel Regs dictate what an agency can and cannot offer to its employees.
I and many others have said for years now we need to cut the heck out of the size of government and the number of their employees state and federal.
We need to go back to the old pay days of 50% of the wage made in the private sector with almost no benefits.
Was like that in exchange for a steady job.
This has been like entitlement spending and it is in exchange for large campaign donations to the Democrats and votes.
Giving away the treasury.
One of the first duties of the new Republican Congress ought to be collecting all the government credit cards of the hundreds of thousands of useless bureaucrats, who have been running them up as though the USA wasn’t flat broke.
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