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ONLY $3 million?

Defense Department company cards used to charge over $3 million at strip clubs, Vegas casinos



Defense Department company cards used to charge over $3 million at strip clubs, Vegas casinosWhen I saw this story I figured I could do the typical outrage piece where I scream about how wasteful our government is. Defense Department employees using their company credit cards to burn through three million dollars with of strippers and casino snow crab should be something we're all angry about. If the world was sane, everyone would be furious.
The DOD is squandering taxpayer dollars like a 5-year-old who cashed a $50 birthday check from grandma and took a stack of ones to the 10-cent candy counter. Our economy's in the crapper, most people are broke, and yet, the feds act like they're swimming in Scrooge McDuck's money vault. Yes, it's disgusting, and it's even worse when you think about how massive our national debt is. ...And that's when it hit me. No one will care about this story because it's "only" $3 Million. Barack Obama has added almost $8 trillion to our debt in just six years, and he still enjoys an approval rating that hovers around the 50% mark. If people can't be bothered to get angry about such grotesque spending, why should I waste my breath shouting about a measly 3 mil? I'll just say this: This spending isn't an aberration, it's the norm. You could probably find this this same story written about almost every nook and cranny of the federal machine. No one in Washington seems particularly interested in changing our fiscal course, most of the electorate has written the issue off as "unsolvable," and the numbers are now so massive that pointing out egregious waste has become "quaint."

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It's a recipe for disaster. If you're one of the few people who actually cares about your government's financial hubris? Well, here you go. Via Judicial Watch:
In the latest of many flagrant examples of how tax dollars are wasted, government-issued credit cards were used by Department of Defense (DOD) employees to make more than $4 million in personal charges, including at casinos and strip clubs. During a one-year period the agency charged 20 million transactions for $3.4 billion on government credit cards, according to a DOD Inspector General report issued this month. About $3.2 million of it was spent at casinos and nearly $1 million on personal expenses, including about $100,000 at strip clubs by 646 card holders. The casino charges were made through 4,437 transactions by 2,636 charge card holders, according to the report which breaks down expenditures by military branch. The U.S. Air Force is by far the biggest offender, outspending other branches and civilian DOD employees with government-issued credit cards. In the year analyzed by investigators, the Air Force charged more than $400,000 in personal expenses at casinos and nearly $40,000 at strip clubs. The Army came in second by spending almost $350,000 at casinos during the same period and nearly $35,000 at “adult entertainment establishments.”
No biggie, right? What's yours is theirs. Let 'em have their fun and run up those cards. But don't forget. When the bill finally comes due - and they realize they've already smashed all the piggy banks? All hell is going to break loose. We're headed for a day of reckoning. ...And it isn't going to be pretty.


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