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Offline John Florida

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$16.00 for an effing muffin!!!!!
« on: September 21, 2011, 07:33:31 PM »
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Re: $16.00 for an effing muffin!!!!!
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2011, 08:28:49 PM »
Whuuut?!  Government doesn't sacrifice!!

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    The report criticized the Justice Department for spending about $600,000 in grant funds for "event planning services" by outside firms at five of the conferences. Schnedar, the acting inspector general, also found that the department spent nearly $3,500 in "unallowable and unnecessary" costs to fly a consultant three times between Alaska and California to help plan a 2008 conference on reducing violence on Indian lands

    Justice officials defended that expenditure. "The consultant was the only event planner who had the expertise and knowledge" in areas such as "substantive knowledge of Native American traditions and cultures,'' Laurie O. Robinson, assistant attorney general for the Office of Justice Programs, wrote in response to the report.

Oh...lord...do we really have to hire an event planner who is sensitive to Native American traditions and cultures? Can't people just ask Native American leaders what they thought the best approach might be to have a conference to help them that does not offend their sensibilities? Or just use Google?

Did any of the public servants feel guilty at all at this shameless waste of taxpayer money? Given some of the unhealthy food served, did they check with Michelle Obama and her food police?

No wonder the Obama administration does not care for Inspectors General.
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Re: $16.00 for an effing muffin!!!!!
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2011, 08:32:29 PM »
Quote from: Pandora on September 21, 2011, 08:28:49 PM
Whuuut?!  Government doesn't sacrifice!!

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    The report criticized the Justice Department for spending about $600,000 in grant funds for "event planning services" by outside firms at five of the conferences. Schnedar, the acting inspector general, also found that the department spent nearly $3,500 in "unallowable and unnecessary" costs to fly a consultant three times between Alaska and California to help plan a 2008 conference on reducing violence on Indian lands

    Justice officials defended that expenditure. "The consultant was the only event planner who had the expertise and knowledge" in areas such as "substantive knowledge of Native American traditions and cultures,'' Laurie O. Robinson, assistant attorney general for the Office of Justice Programs, wrote in response to the report.

Oh...lord...do we really have to hire an event planner who is sensitive to Native American traditions and cultures? Can't people just ask Native American leaders what they thought the best approach might be to have a conference to help them that does not offend their sensibilities? Or just use Google?

Did any of the public servants feel guilty at all at this shameless waste of taxpayer money? Given some of the unhealthy food served, did they check with Michelle Obama and her food police?

No wonder the Obama administration does not care for Inspectors General.

 How much did those people have to donate to Obama to land that gig.
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Re: $16.00 for an effing muffin!!!!!
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2011, 08:42:00 PM »
Dear DOJ,

It's called gotomeeting.com


You're welcome,

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Re: $16.00 for an effing muffin!!!!!
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2011, 08:42:56 PM »
Now, let's see ...

.... in order to land a gig as an attorney in one of any of several sections in the New and Improved Social Justice Department, the Obama-donation was as low as $750.
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Re: $16.00 for an effing muffin!!!!!
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2011, 11:36:08 PM »
I really don't care about $16 muffins.

I care more about the multi-million dollars it cost to "create" a job with stimulus money.
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Re: $16.00 for an effing muffin!!!!!
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2011, 06:51:42 AM »
Quote from: trapeze on September 21, 2011, 11:36:08 PM
I really don't care about $16 muffins.

I care more about the multi-million dollars it cost to "create" a job with stimulus money.

The $16 muffins are symbolic though, of the wanton waste and disregard for the responsibility bestowed by citizens on their government, as well as the total lack of accountability.

You're right in your assessment of the far greater transgression vs. the inconsequential one, but I think that as a focal point to capture the attention and outrage of the average Joe sixpack, these things are useful when exposed.
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Re: $16.00 for an effing muffin!!!!!
« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2011, 08:09:17 AM »
Small crooks turn into big crooks.

Incarcerate them early enough maybe they'll be less big crooks.
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Re: $16.00 for an effing muffin!!!!!
« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2011, 08:11:37 AM »
Quote from: trapeze on September 21, 2011, 11:36:08 PM
I really don't care about $16 muffins.

I care more about the multi-million dollars it cost to "create" a job with stimulus money.

 I get what you're saying but most people don't even understand what a million dollars is or will ever live to see it. But 16.00 for a muffin is a very clear picture to them.16.00 dollare in some cases is the difference in filling you gas tank or not and that's something they can wrap their heads around.
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Re: $16.00 for an effing muffin!!!!!
« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2011, 10:11:47 PM »
Remember the outrage when it was reported that the Pentagon paid like $400 for a toilet seat, etc.?
At least that had the legitimate purpose of funding black programs.
This...this sort of thing is just a big "f**k YOU" to you and me.
Or a little one, like Trap says.
But it's still a "f**k you!"

$16 muffin! That $ could feed a family for a day.
Or a bloated union member for a morning snack.
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Re: $16.00 for an effing muffin!!!!!
« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2011, 09:54:50 AM »
The muffin is 16.00 because we are feeding families for a da....lifetime.

I'm sure most of them ate two.
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Re: $16.00 for an effing muffin!!!!!
« Reply #11 on: September 24, 2011, 06:13:35 PM »
Quote from: Predator Don on September 24, 2011, 09:54:50 AM
The muffin is 16.00 because we are feeding families for a da....lifetime.

I'm sure most of them ate two.

 Or took them home to the wife.
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