GSA head resigns over "wasteful" Las Vegas seminar

[MADem]

20. As someone who worked in government (DOD specifically) for decades, GSA has always been fucked up.

They've come under scrutiny often in the last several decades, and they've come up short time and time again. This is something that crosses party lines, it's been going on since Reagan and the Cold War buildup, if not longer.

Anyone working at GSA really needs to have the disposition and character of Caesar's wife. For some reason, that's not happening--there's an entrenched culture of civil servants who were once grace-and-favour appointees in that outfit that are harder to shift than blueberry stains. It is a culture that needs to change, though--they are very wasteful and inefficient and rigid. The frigging Inspector General's office also has a problem in this regard over the years as well. They're worse in many ways--just nowhere near as big as GSA.

Congressional abuse of monies is also disgraceful, but two wrongs don't make a right. I personally think that all congressional reps in both chambers should be required to put their quarterly budgets up on their websites--in a line-item fashion. That would cut down on a lot of the bullshit.