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To: KLP who wrote (483190)4/17/2012 4:09:49 PM
From: longnshort3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793996
 
Congress is all 'upset' about this, but they spend way more on their junkets which they take along their family and friends. It's all BS



To: KLP who wrote (483190)4/17/2012 4:43:25 PM
From: FJB4 Recommendations  Respond to of 793996
 
Panetta’s weekend commute costs as much as GSA Vegas junket
Posted By Josh RoginTuesday, April 17, 2012 - 11:37 AM

thecable.foreignpolicy.com



Defense Secretary Leon Panetta flies home to California almost every weekend, racking up costs for the American taxpayer roughly equal to the cost of the General Services Administration's junket to Las Vegas that has Congress fuming mad this week...



To: KLP who wrote (483190)4/17/2012 8:03:43 PM
From: RinConRon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793996
 
>>What do they do?<<

They were originally chartered to make the best possible purchases for the government of such mundane consumables as office supplies. As with all government agencies it grew into a giant octopus whose Raison d'être is to grow more tentacles. I think they employ something like 12,000 people.


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