-WiscoDave
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
New Trump Credit-Card Limit for Bureaucrats: Welcome To ...
Donald Trump promised to actually cut spending in Washington, and the DOGE effort already shows how seriously he took that pledge. However, DOGE didn't just have USAID or grant programs on their radar screen. They also took aim at bureaucrats with government-issued credit cards, with the aim of bringing their discretionary spending to an abrupt halt. The Wall Street Journal reported on the new one-dollar limit that many may have discovered the hard way:
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John Kerry should be billed for airfare, hotels, meals, hookers and blow he's gone through as he traveled the world on our dime pretending to be more intelligent than a 3rd grader
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John Horseface Kerry should be pitched face first into a running chipper-shredder.
DeleteI respectfully disagree. He should be fed, feet-first, into an idling wood-chipper. Yes, I do hate him that much.
DeleteKerry was an officer, please recall that SOB so he can be courts martialed for sedition!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant.
ReplyDeleteUsing POs (purchase orders) to order supplies not provided by .gov warehouse, paying your own damn way and getting reimbursed for items with receipts, and filling out the per diem paperwork to get paid lunches WHILE IN TEMPORARY DUTY STATUS are fine.
ReplyDelete$1000 lunches and haircuts on .gov CC not good.
What a pain using a govt CC was for us pee-ons. Had to use them for travel, but us lowlifes were tightly restricted. The follow-up paperwork came close to making it worthwhile to pay out of our own pockets but that apparently was a no-no as well. Fire every GD "admin staff" and 2nd tier manager and up. Make them re-apply for any jobs that may be necessary. The higher up they are, the harder to regain their position. With the exception of secys and "administrative assistants". Fire all of them.
ReplyDeleteI read an article the other day that there were 4 million government issued credit cards. I will take a guess that more than a few are misused. The government has purchasing agents and contracted suppliers. No need for that many cards out there. And for government travel, maybe gather up some DC3s
ReplyDeleteCredit card uses are audited on a regular basis. The concept is the amount of labor overhead required for a purchase order versus a credit card buy. Long story short, to get a keyboard was going to cost over a thousand dollars in labor to get the purchase order through purchasing. Pretty stupid for a $23 keyboard.
DeleteHave those DC3s piloted by DEI hire pilots.
ReplyDeleteYES! "Make the Federal government so small we can't even see it!" Rand Paul
ReplyDeleteI've been a long time follower of his father Ron.
DeleteJD
Personally I would like to hear the excuse they have to explain why there are more govt credit cards than there are employees.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet a large number of the cards are held by members of the military. I was required to use a government credit card when on TDY, etc, while a reservist.
DeleteI had a company credit card for much of my career at the telephone company which I used entirely for travel. It was well known that using this card for non-business purposes, including personal emergencies, was a firing offense.
ReplyDeleteYes, but who's gonna do the firing? The drone from accounting? His boss? It gets lost in the weeds before anything actually happens.
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