Social Security Spends $700,000 on a Conference
When you are the CEO of Tyco and you hold outrageous, lavish “company outings,” and you steal money from your company, what do you get? The answer would be, you get thrown in jail.
Dennis Kozlowski was found guilty of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from Tyco and sentenced to 8 to 25 years in prison.
When you are the Social Security Department and you hold a “conference” that includes dancers and costs the taxpayers $700,000 and you also steal hundreds of millions of dollars from the taxpayers every year, it is business as usual.
I ask you, which is worse? At least Dennis Kozlowski was stealing from his own company. Social Security is stealing from all taxpaying Americans.
All I ask is that the government is held to the same standards that they hold private citizens to. Is that so unreasonable?
America's Watchtower 
Government spending money on something like this outing is bad, very bad—its not their money. Private companies doing the same is OK, unless they are taking government handouts. Politicans will never learn and their life-styles reflect that. The real elites in this country at the moment are those who work for the government. They have job security, great retirement plans, good wages, and whats more important to them is they have us under their thumbs.
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Sound quite a bit like what the founding fathers were fighting against to me.
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Obviously trying to spend some stimulus money at the local Holiday Inn to get smarter…
This is our government spending our country’s future, and it doesn’t look good.
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Is there still a future?
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Only if a bunch of people wise up real fast and kick some politicians’ butts, starting from the top down.
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The American people need to vote in a balance congress in 2010 so that Barack Hussien can be kept in Check for his remaining last half of his first and only term I hope!
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That is our one hope. We need to take back at least on house in the 2010 elections.
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Just shows you the gubment thinks they can do anything they want. In the “age of Obama”, government hubris is almost as big as the deficit will be.
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“government hubris is almost as big as the deficit will be”
Great line, I wish I thought of it. I might steal it sometime in the future.
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Your article states that Dennis Kozlowski “stole hundreds of millions of dollars from Tyco” during his time as CEO of that company. A fact check of court records (available to the public and writers who care to get their facts correct) will show that Mr. Kozlowski’s conviction related to his receipt of $81 million in purportedly unauthorized bonuses, the purchase of art for $14.725 million and the payment by TYCO of a $20 million investment banking fee to Frank Walsh, a former TYCO director. The total dollar amount of his convictions is $95.725, not the “hundreds of millions of dollars” you claim. He may be no saint, but he is not even in the same league with the guys from ENRON, WORLDCOM, ADELPHIA (all now out of business while TYCO is still going strong), Bernie Maddoff or even AIG, who’s leadership or lack thereof triggered the collapse of financial markets around the world without one indictment, just a big bailout from the government.
J. Flick
Los Angeles, Ca.
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I am sorry, I apologize, you got me on a technicality. Almost $100 million was stolen by this man. Does that make you feel any better? This article was not meant to be a defense of this man, I was just using him as one example of people in the private sector who do much the same as people in the government. But while the private citizen is prosecuted the government is ammune.This post was meant to be anti-government waste.
I agree with you on Enron, AIG,and the others.I just sited one example, there are many.
You seem to have missed my point, that is my fault for not articulating it well enough and for that I apologize again.
I will try to do better next time.
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