Posted on 07/09/2009 2:26:27 PM PDT by FromLori
Under Obama's watch. Social Security Administration holds training conference at upscale resort at taxpayers' expense
must see video at site
Can we get some of the quotes they were spewing over the AIG conventions last year?
How is this any different then Dear Leader. Leadership flows from the top down.
Apparently the SSA hasn’t discovered teleconferencing ..businesses who are looking at their bottom line have adopted this technology to save travel costs. When its the taxpayer’s money the bureaucrats could care less.
The bozo they interviewed seemed to think it was no problem since they were just wasting taxpayer money in the usual way rather than bailout funds.
I spent a lot of my career on TDY. I lived trailers and commo vans in Vietnam, drawing minimum per diem because I was living in government quarters and eating government mess. In N’djamena, I had to live in a hotel room with no toilet seat or showerhead. My roomie and I shared digs in a hotel in Tehran; we both vowed we’d never again room with someone we couldn’t grab (i.e., our wives). We’re best friends to this day, 35 years later.
A retired Marine, I use to play golf with stated, he didn’t stay anywhere that didn’t have room service now, the Corp made him uncomforable for 26 years.
Looks like those little conferences have been going on for a while. Found this while looking for the original article.
http://www.ssa.gov/oig/communications/eyeonoig/eyeoig07132006.htm
In The News
SSA OIG Hosts Annual PCIE/ECIE Training Conference and Retreat
Together with it’s co-host, the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Inspector General, SSA’s OIG planned and hosted the 2006 Annual President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency/Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency Annual Training Conference and Retreat on May 1-4, 2006 at the Renaissance Waterfront Hotel and Conference Center in Portsmouth, Virginia. The theme of this year’s conference was “Adapting to Change - The Changing Role of the Inspector General Community.” The meeting was attended by approximately 90 individuals with representation from each of the 57 PCIE and ECIE member organizations.
Speakers were drawn from both the public and private sectors to address the changes in traditional IG workloads as well as to discuss how more contemporary issues like hurricane disaster relief and global terrorism are affecting IGs’ work. Guest speakers included Dateline NBC’s Chris Hansen, Sam Kharoba of First Capital Technologies, Frank Vogl of Vogl Communications and Joe Mancusi from the Center for Organizational Excellence. Among others, government speakers included Clay Johnson from OMB, Andre Hurtubise from Service Canada and Marilyn Glynn from the Office of Government Ethics. Several IG employees participated on two panels addressing their best practices in preventing fraud, waste and abuse.
The tidewater area of Virginia provided the perfect setting for this annual retreat. On the evening of Wednesday, May 3 attendees had the option of touring the U.S.S. Bataan, an amphibious assault ship stationed at the Norfolk Naval Base. The U.S.S. Bataan was the first Navy vessel to arrive in the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast shortly after Katrina’s landfall in Louisiana. In addition to learning about the ship’s primary mission and structure, tour attendees received a firsthand accounting of the humanitarian relief rendered to the victims of the Gulf Coast hurricanes. OIG is proud of its success in hosting this annual meeting. Attendees gave high marks to every session with an overall conference evaluation score of 4.42 on a scale of 1 to 5.
(Did you like the part about looking for fraud, waste, and abuse?)
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