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$1.2 Billion Down The Drain
From the Federal Times: A Senate report lambastes the Air Force for poorly managing the acquisition of a logistics management system the service canceled after spending $1.2 billion. The report…
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Report: Half Of Federal Agency Security Breaches Caused By Employees
From the Federal Times: While cyber professionals work to minimize the cyber threats faced by federal agencies, one of the biggest security flaws may be the network users themselves, according…
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Why Shouldn’t Federal Workers Be Fired For Not Paying Taxes?
Maddening news from the Federal Times. Huge numbers of federal workers — whose salaries are paid for with tax money — don’t pay their taxes. The number of federal employees…
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Times Were Good At The Beginning Of The Obama Years?
In a Federal Times story about fewer federal workers getting pay raises these days, check out this incredible comment: “Managers are getting tougher, out of necessity,” said John Palguta, vice…
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Outrage: VA Spent $86.5 Million On Conferences And Travel Last Year
Yesterday the House Veterans Affairs Committee held a hearing to try to get answers from VA bureaucrats about the outrageous spending by the agency on conferences and travel in 2011…
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Headline Of The Day: “How the Air Force blew $1 billion on a dud system”
Seven years and about $1 billion later, the Air Force has abandoned a logistics management system that was, as the Federal Times puts it in their headline: a dud. CSC was…
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Sen. Burr Fed Up With VA’s Lavish Spending On Conference
I have been blogging about the outrageous spending scandal at VA, which included all sorts of goodies for employees and an expensive Gen. Patton spoof video. Now Sen. Richard Burr…
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VA Exec Resigns On Eve Of Inspector General Report About Wasteful Spending
The Federal Times reports the Justice Department has decided not to prosecute this high-levelVA bureaucrat, who resigned Sunday as the Inspector General report about outrageous VA spending on conferences and…
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Federal Times: VA Spent $84,000 On Conference Gifts For Employees
The Federal Times reports the VA wants to avoid the fate of the General Services Administration, which was rightly excoriated when GSA’s outrageous waste of taxpayer dollars was uncovered. If all…
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Another Bloated, Wasteful Federal Bureaucracy
The next time someone tries to spin the federal deficit and/or debt by saying it is impossible to cut back or that federal agencies have already been cut to the…
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Why Wasn’t This Guy Fired?
The Federal Times reports that Jeff Neely, the guy who directed the gross misuse of hard-earned tax dollars at the GSA, retired this week. Retired? In the private sector, he…
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Postal Service Audit Finds $717 Million In Authorized Overtime
From the Federal Times comes the results of a U.S. Postal Service audit. Gosh, I can’t imagine why they’re losing boatloads of money. And it’s not the first time this…