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Wasting Taxpayer Money Cooked Into Books

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    Reason Magazine editor-in-chief Matt Welch weighs in on the GSA scandal and big government.

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The general services administration.

And the -- -- it demons.

And the list of questionable conferences are being scrapped from -- calendar this says it's also been revealed that the GSA.

Spent over 330000.

Dollars to relocate one employed from Denver to YE.

It's a long way -- let's talk about -- about all this editor in chief reason magazine that'll give us a reason I guess a show like and the -- and if events which on -- few times that our -- whatever it is -- -- -- make all this.

You know this is unfortunately an artifact of -- federal government running on auto basically right now we've increased the budget from one point eight trillion to three point six trillion.

And -- agencies justify their budget every year by starting with last year's budget and trying to pattern out so they don't have -- have money left over -- gonna go.

And take a 120 interns to Palm Springs on -- Now -- on new favorite because it as we get more more details about the reckless spending at the GSA which is charged with actually helping control spending and government agency better manage those dollars.

That's been a favorite as -- interns -- got to got to -- sprang for five days they wanted to click it weekend right.

What it does it come down to the management of these different divisions of government because again there has to be some accountability.

At the lower levels doesn't.

Well I mean let's remember that we are seeing some this accountability now the reason -- we know about this is because of the inspectors general and the president is talking about it but it is inevitable when -- when you have no budget coming out of the Senate Finance Committee at all we're not even thinking about it.

You just have to just by budget every year so you're -- this is built in cooked into the system.

At a time when everyone is complaining over cutting government to the bone are -- gonna survive.

This is in the inevitable by product as -- yup I think in the real world there -- some serious.

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That when you look at these dollars they just don't amount.

Right there's it's a symbolic exercise here when in fact we have a Big Three driving spending of Medicare but military is Sachs -- -- -- they go hand in hand they are part of the same culture it's a way of talking about these other things and but sometimes it's a way of not talking about the Republicans love to bring up these things because they actually don't really want to cut.

These big drivers of the federal budget -- -- like defense of thing -- Matt Welch thank you very much like -- -- -- -- thank you.

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