What Did The GSA Do Wrong?

The U.S. Congress in four hearings alone this week is accusing the General Services Administration (GSA) of wasting $831,000 of taxpayer money. But aren't the GSA actions pervasive in Washington? The Iraq and Afghan Wars have devoured two trillion dollars of taxpayer money with no accountability. Literally billions of dollars in cash, some of it "bricks" of greenbacks, was transported by the U.S. military to those nations and it is gone. Where are the hearings? Where is the outrage? Where is the investigation?

Taxpayer bailouts to banks and other giant companies totaling hundreds of billions of dollars and no accountability. Vast stimulus spending to ignite the U.S. economy has taken place in recent years, with no accountability. The Fed, the guardian of the U.S. currency, prints massive quantities of money to disperse as it chooses. No accountability.

I'm not condoning GSA waste of taxpayer funds in Las Vegas, Napa Valley, Hawaii and perhaps elsewhere. I believe these are good people who made some bad decisions. But in fairness, their bad decisions and lack of accountability are not even big enough to be rounding errors compared with what is taking place in Washington, all around them.

As for Congress and the President, before you condemn someone else, measure your own actions and your marginally declared campaign contributions by unnamed powerful parties in SuperPacs who are using this money to buy your support for whatever they want, bailouts, military contracts, oil depletion allowances, etc. Please make yourselves transparent in the receiving of all these billions of dollars, before you express your outrage at others, who are no guiltier than you. Set the example by holding yourselves accountable and together, let's cleanup this deeply corrupted government and offer our children a government they and we can be proud of.

Dick