I am amazed that this is real.
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Posted on 02/10/2025 1:30:35 AM PST by texas booster
After President Trump’s near assassination, the Secret Service complained that it needed more money.
My take was that this is what government officials always claim after a massive screw-up and that more money is not needed.
Does the Secret Service actually need more money? It has a $3 billion budget. That’s around double what it was in 2000.
Only about $1.2 billion of that goes to protective operations and only about $73 million gets spent on providing security at presidential campaigns. $138 million gets spent on training and professional development.
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I did a deeper dive back in December.
The Secret Service salary cap is $221,145. In one survey nearly 40% of agents had hit the cap for working overtime which means that many of the Secret Service personnel are being paid more than some of the elected officials they’re protecting.
With a mandatory retirement age of 57 and a program that allows personnel to retire in their fifties, collect pensions and then return to work, ludicrous salaries have become the norm.
In 2014, the Secret Service blamed malfunctioning radios that made it difficult to track the intruder. In 2024, the Secret Service once again blamed malfunctioning radios.
With a $3 billion annual budget and a decade worth of time, the Secret Service can’t even manage to solve a problem with its radios. Why expect it to do anything at all?
When Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu visited D.C. Secret Service “agents said they marveled at what their Israeli counterparts brought — including a portable security camera network that delivered live feeds from key spots in the prime minister’s hotel. The Secret Service has its own mobile camera system. But agents say it is so unreliable it is rarely used.”
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The United States Secret Service tapped blockbuster movie director Michael Bay to create a recruiting advertisement that is expected to be unveiled in the stadium on Super Bowl Sunday, according to multiple NFL and Secret Service sources.
The ad cost an estimated $2 million for the Secret Service to produce, according to two sources familiar with the project — a hefty price tag that comes amid massive budget cuts and layoffs at other government agencies.
One source told CNN the estimated $2 million budget is about double what was spent on previous Secret Service recruiting ads.
People are fairly aware of the Secret Service. A Super Bowl ad isn’t fixing its recruiting problems. The problem is that the Secret Service has to compete for the people it wants with multiple police forces desperately trying to staff up after the BLM crime wave and with the military and various security agencies.
But a Super Bowl ad is not going to address that. People either believe in the ethos of your organization or don’t. Making the Secret Service look cool is not the answer. Not when existing veterans keep heading out the door. That’s not even a recruitment issue, it’s a leadership issue and one that desperately needs fixing.
I am amazed that this is real.
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Donald Trump took away the secret service protection from quite a few people now so the financial pressure should be less.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WARNING:
SOCIAL SECURITY FOR AMERICANS RUNNING OUT OF MONEY
BUT THERE’S PLENTY OF GOVT MONEY FOR FOREIGNERS,
TERRORISTS, THE WELFARE STATE, AND THE “GREEN NEW DEAL”
Billions of taxpayer dollars for welfare
Billions of taxpayer dollars for the Ukraine
Billions of taxpayer dollars for the Illegal aliens invading America
Billions of taxpayer dollars for Palestinian and GAZA muslim terrorists
Billions of taxpayer dollars for EV charging stations that never got built
Billions of taxpayer dollars for military equipment handed over to the Taliban
Billions of taxpayer dollars for Iran to finance terrorism and develop nuclear weapons
Billions of tax dollars and arms to Ukraine
Billions of tax dollars, economic aid and arms to Israel
My impression is that there’s going to be quite a few openings.
The SS employs 7100 Secret Service Special agents and 2800 Task Force Officers, plus Uniformed Division officers, Technical Law Enforcement officers, and administrative, professional, and technical personnel on the tax-paid govt payroll. Complete with perks, privileges, eternal Cadillac healthcare, bonuses, expense accounts, credit cards, Spcial Security programs and govt pensions.
Roughly half of the Secret Service’s $3 billion budget is spent on protective services. It also has a robust cybercrime division, state-of-the-art forensic labs and a threat-assessment center that studies how to mitigate and train against threats.
<><>The Dept of Homeland Security which has more than 260,000 employees in jobs that range from aviation and border security to emergency response, from cybersecurity analyst to chemical facility inspector on the govt payroll as of Jun 11, 2024.
The Homeland Security bill includes $91.515 billion in total discretionary appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security, including $62.793 billion within the bill’s allocation, $5.837 billion in discretionary appropriations offset by fee collections, and a $20.261 billion allocation adjustment for major response events.
<><>The Homeland Security Investigations division received $2.5 billion tax dollars, an increase of $123 million above fiscal year 2023. The agency apparently “lent” employees to Secret Service and has over 9,800 Special Agents and tactical officers on the tax-paid govt payroll. Complete With tax-paid perks privileges healthcare bonuses and pensions.
Those payroll numbers sound alarmingly suspicious——like the age-old scam of putting phantom names on the payroll with the attendant eye-popping financial windfall, ending with several govt pensions for whoever’s cashing in.
Let’s get Congress to check it out.
Call (202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard operator.
Message: Payroll fraud is widespread and easy to pull off on the govt payroll.
There are several methodologies used, including
<><>submitting falsified time sheets,
<><>issuing unauthorized paychecks, healthcare, bonuses, benefits and overtime
<><>enrolling fictitious employees in pension plans.
The govt fraudster simply sets up fictitious employees and arranges for them to receive a salary,
benefits, overtime payments, bonuses and pensions, even though they do not perform any duties.
The fraudster then diverts the fraudulent payments into their bank account or that of an accomplice.
Payroll fraud entails serious crimes.......falsifying govt documents, misappropriation of tax dollars, skimming, larceny, check tampering, check kiting, billing fraud, payroll fraud, reimbursement fraud, pension fraud, misuse of tax dollars, theft of tax dollars, ID fraud, Social Security swindles, IRS fraud.
Is that ACTING HEAD of the SS still there?? The RUDE one with the hideous haircut!
According to the CPI, how much value has the u.s. dollar lost since the year 2000?
ChatGPT said:
Since the year 2000, the U.S. dollar has experienced a significant decline in purchasing power due to inflation. According to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures the average change in prices over time, the value of the dollar has decreased by approximately 50% from 2000 to 2024. This means that $1 in 2000 is equivalent to about $0.50 in 2024 dollars.
The Secret Service Super Bowl ad (directed by Michael Bay) wasn’t a funding request but a bid to boost morale and recruitment. It was likely pushed by new Director Sean Curran (and the President) to restore the agency’s reputation after failures during the campaign.
As you guys might know, Sean Curran led Trump’s personal security detail during the campaign.”
The Secret Service has its own mobile camera system. But agents say it is so unreliable it is rarely used.”
So a camera network is too tough a technical feat to pull off?
I saw the ad. I don’t see the problem in spending this money to recruit new agents as long as undesirable agents already employed are rooted out.
Social security and welfare payments made to dead people is the norm to continue the gravy train and meet burial expenses woth funeral homes often complicit in the ruse.
It should be cheaper to hire or redirect resources to police and properly disperse our funds. Having the dead voting is bad enough but paying them?
This article doesn’t even mention the new Director, Sean Curran. Curran, head of Trump’s personal security detail, was chosen to clean up the Secret Service and rescue it from the prior Woke influences.
Dan Bongino, who has several friends still in SS, said they have plenty of money and don’t need more. They just need to figure out how to use it. Apparently, they’re way behind the times re technology and could use it there.
Apparently, they’re way behind the times re technology and
could use it there.
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Incompentency is a growing situation where that lots of groups
don’t have the ability to over come. Computerization helps but
Leadership/needs/abilities should be given serious attention.
financial pressure should be less.
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Financies is one factor but there are others that need to be
addressed such as commpentiency, standards, equipment etc.
jmo. These need to be addressed regularily but probably aren’t.
"Professional development" is usually a code-word for waste, fraud, abuse, and DEI brainwashing. It's a slush fund for funneling money in all sorts of directions.
And Michael Bay gets to keep making movies ... it’s just not fair
(”The Island” was very good) - too bad we lost Michael Clarke Duncan
(also too bad SP didn’t quite understand the Book of Job except superficially)
Are they recruiting Umpa-Lumpas?
"We're looking for a few good lesbians"
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