What's In Your (Bureaucrat's) Wallet?
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The Office of Management and Budget has revoked the outrageous expansion of credit limits on the government-issued credit cards of 250,000 bureaucrats to $250,000 each, which could have potentially led to $62.5 billion of Katrina-inspired pork, fraud, waste and mismanagement.
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On a related note, the government also canceled the equally outrageous $2,000 debit card program for hurricane victims. Getting scarce supplies to Katrina victims was one thing, but unless all the ATMs were flooded, a shortage of cash was simply not the problem and debit cards were not the solution.
Some cards in the past were used to pay for prostitutes, gambling activity, even breast implants, government audits have shown.This was the Politics of the Warm Fuzzy Feeling stuck on stupid. Bravo to OMB for pulling the plug. (Hat tip to Government Bytes.)
"To further strengthen the protections that we have put in place to guard against fraud and abuse, we are asking that agencies operate under pre-hurricane levels unless they can justify to us that there are exceptional circumstances," said Clay Johnson III, OMB's deputy director for management.
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On a related note, the government also canceled the equally outrageous $2,000 debit card program for hurricane victims. Getting scarce supplies to Katrina victims was one thing, but unless all the ATMs were flooded, a shortage of cash was simply not the problem and debit cards were not the solution.
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3 October 2005
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