[CitizenUSA]

I’m not saying it’s right, but c’mon. If I got worked up over this, how am I supposed to feel about the billions of other dollars pissed away? It’s pretty much a given that senior government officials are going to get some perks. Would I eliminate the perks if I could? Yeah, sure. But we’ve got deadly serious, economy destroying things going on. This sort of crap is down in the weeds.

[Joe 6-pack]

In my America, we the people are the government; those folks in Washington are our employees, sent there to do our bidding. The reason we are going bankrupt is because the employers have been allowing the employees to take far too many liberties for far too long.

We need to hold them accountable for their abuses and set the climate and tone for them to operate in. An employee who fears the consequences of stealing a pen and a pad of post-it notes would never even contemplate embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars.

We have been sloppy, apathetic managers of our employees, and if we don't start ringing some bells on the little things, we're going out of business sooner rather than later.

[rottndog]

I think you’re wrong here...these outlandish perks are like a gateway drug...it’s one of the ways the liars and thieves in Washington (and all other legislative bodies for that matter) get addicted to OPiuM.

When they feel so entitled to spend so freely and without consequence on small things like this, there’s no reason to expect that won’t spend the same way with the big ticket items. It’s not their own money, so they don’t care. It’s an attitude that has to be changed.

I think smashing their grubby fingers whilst they are in the cookie jar will go a long way towards curbing their enthusiasm for spending overall.

[tet68]

we’ve got deadly serious, economy destroying things going on.

This is one of them, it indicates the mindset of
corruption inculcated in the political elite.
It’s time to start cleaning house and you start
where you find DIRT.