| The amount of fraud that goes on in our | | | | personnel. Yet, if you consider that |
| government at the federal level is | | | | soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines serve |
| unbelievable and most people have no idea how | | | | our country and risk their lives surely they |
| bad it actually is. For instance consider | | | | deserve a little R and R on the town between |
| Government credit card abuse and wasteful | | | | missions. That I completely understand. But |
| spending by government workers using | | | | when government lawyers set up a training |
| taxpayers money. Did you know that each year | | | | meeting at an exclusive golf course and |
| millions of dollars go unaccounted for in | | | | tennis resort, which is only miles away from |
| audits by the federal government and their | | | | an Official Federal Government Training |
| various agencies; some 3000. It is | | | | Facility; well I have a problem with |
| true.Often they catch government workers up | | | | that.When USDA government employees buy Ozzy |
| using government credit cards and stealing | | | | Osbourne Concert tickets with a government |
| taxpayers money, but very rarely is anyone | | | | credit card; well, I have a problem with that |
| ever put in jail for it. It is stealing even | | | | too. When Washington, DC workers use their |
| though the United States federal government | | | | credit card to take their families to |
| passed a law in June of 2006 to stop the | | | | expensive restaurants, buy cruise vacations |
| government credit card fraud and abuse it | | | | or take their cars to the local car wash; I |
| still goes on. It is not as if they needed a | | | | have a problem with that. And this is the |
| law to tell people not to steal because | | | | reason that I have put together a team of |
| people know that that is taxpayers money and | | | | writers to speak out and write on the subject |
| they know what personal expenses are and they | | | | of government credit card abuse, fraud and |
| surely know what official government business | | | | stealing of taxpayers money. Quite frankly |
| is.Some people have been quite concerned with | | | | we will not put up with this. Please |
| the government credit card use of military | | | | consider this in 2006. |