EMAIL OF THE DAY

“In the early 1990’s, I watched a good friend of mine grab a 600 grand a year ‘grant’ from her friend, and fellow JFK Schooler, in the EPA. For the next ten years, my friend got 600 grand annually, (disbursed thru Las Vegas, aptly enough) for doing … absolutely nothing. I mean nothing.
At the end of ten years, my friend had spent all the money, and had produced a series of annual reports, each one approximately 40 pages long, filled with pseudo-scientific booshwah so ridiculous that even her friends couldn’t help smirking when they read it.
70 percent of the money was spent flying to ‘conferences’ with other JFK grantors (always in gorgeous locales) where they gave ‘papers’ and mostly networked with each other to find more grants.
I know this sounds like miniscule potatoes – but multiply this 100,000 times, and over a thousand agencies…
And she was never listed as a Federal employee!
Now the Republicans are in – and my friend is out. But imagine what the new pigs and the new troughs are getting.” Ah yes, and the GOP has hiked the number of pigs and expanded the size of the trough.