New Posts For Thread: Disgrace at the GSAhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29065591/Disgrace_at_the_GSAwww.cnn.com/2012/04/16/politics/gsa-hear...What these guys are doing with your money:A government official at the center of lavish spending at a Las Vegas conference claimed his Fifth Amendment rights against testifying at a congressional hearing MonThis thread was moved from the Hot Topics Zone.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29065591/Disgrace_at_the_GSA?post_id=519236141#519236141This thread was moved from the Hot Topics Zone.Tue, 01 May 2012 19:54:22 -0500If I am not mistaken, prostitution is legal in some counties in Nevadahttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29065591/Disgrace_at_the_GSA?post_id=518989125#518989125If I am not mistaken, prostitution is legal in some counties in NevadaTue, 24 Apr 2012 18:33:42 -0500Well, Marcion, that is a different scandal altogether.It's not yet clear (to me, anyway) whether the agents used tax money or their own money to hire the prostitutes (presumably their own, or the one guy wouldn't have tried to stiff her, but you nevehttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29065591/Disgrace_at_the_GSA?post_id=518971871#518971871Well, Marcion, that is a different scandal altogether.It's not yet clear (to me, anyway) whether the agents used tax money or their own money to hire the prostitutes (presumably their own, or the one guy wouldn't have tried to stiff her, but you neveTue, 24 Apr 2012 12:23:36 -0500We never would have learned about the incident if it hadn't been for one cheapskate agent trying to stiff a hooker. I bet he is popular with his fellow agents.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29065591/Disgrace_at_the_GSA?post_id=518969959#518969959We never would have learned about the incident if it hadn't been for one cheapskate agent trying to stiff a hooker. I bet he is popular with his fellow agents.Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:25:31 -0500I work for a NFP so we're monitored on spending. I'm also the education/event planner for my organization and our trainings are highly monitored, because some of the costs involved with those come from our federal funder (although food is paid for ouhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29065591/Disgrace_at_the_GSA?post_id=518796215#518796215I work for a NFP so we're monitored on spending. I'm also the education/event planner for my organization and our trainings are highly monitored, because some of the costs involved with those come from our federal funder (although food is paid for ouThu, 19 Apr 2012 11:26:12 -0500Sure, Ariel, people will do what they can get away with.But where was the oversight?Things were not much different in much of the private sector a few years back (which is why Dennis Koslowski is in jail, where some of these GSA guys need to be). Buhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29065591/Disgrace_at_the_GSA?post_id=518792979#518792979Sure, Ariel, people will do what they can get away with.But where was the oversight?Things were not much different in much of the private sector a few years back (which is why Dennis Koslowski is in jail, where some of these GSA guys need to be). BuThu, 19 Apr 2012 10:18:51 -0500What is there to read that is so mysterious? They got used to spend money like crazy because they got away with it in the past and apparently nobody was supervising the practices. The US bureocrats got used to spend lavishly when the country had mhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29065591/Disgrace_at_the_GSA?post_id=518751713#518751713What is there to read that is so mysterious? They got used to spend money like crazy because they got away with it in the past and apparently nobody was supervising the practices. The US bureocrats got used to spend lavishly when the country had mWed, 18 Apr 2012 10:43:12 -0500Judges and juries aren't allowed to read anything into somebody's silence.When it's my money going down the tubes, I can read into it anything I like.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29065591/Disgrace_at_the_GSA?post_id=518735767#518735767Judges and juries aren't allowed to read anything into somebody's silence.When it's my money going down the tubes, I can read into it anything I like.Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:38:51 -0500Strange reasoning, guilt by using constitutional rights, If I was subpoenaed before congress, I would evoke the fifth. Misspeaking, recalling a detail wrongly, omitting some information could give the opposition party a reason for an indictment forhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29065591/Disgrace_at_the_GSA?post_id=518731509#518731509Strange reasoning, guilt by using constitutional rights, If I was subpoenaed before congress, I would evoke the fifth. Misspeaking, recalling a detail wrongly, omitting some information could give the opposition party a reason for an indictment forTue, 17 Apr 2012 18:53:17 -0500Point. But I thought you weren't allowed to read anything into silence. Or does that just apply to actual legal procedings in the States (our laws work entirely differently in this area)?http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29065591/Disgrace_at_the_GSA?post_id=518731373#518731373Point. But I thought you weren't allowed to read anything into silence. Or does that just apply to actual legal procedings in the States (our laws work entirely differently in this area)?Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:48:59 -0500