I must disagree. Our President is not shown in a pejorative light. Only our President's hand-picked appointee was brought to task. She was shown to have been, how can it be put delicately, throwing our money around like a deranged person.

This waste should have been curtailed long ago. Those involved in spending these funds should be criminally prosecuted, in much the same way as a PI would if an A-133 audit revealed the squandering of public funds. We, as research administrators, are held to certain standards of responsibility governing the use of public funds, are we not? Is there no accountability for the politically connected?

Bread and circuses, specially reserved for small coteries of public employees, anyone?

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For irony how about the NYT piece that paints Obama as the bad guy and FDA as the good guys without ever mentioning FDA spies on its workers?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/health/policy/white-house-and-fda-at-odds-on-regulatory-issues.html?comments#comments

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(I recommend listening to "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette while reading these particular articles .)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/us/politics/general-services-administration-chief-resigns.html

Agency Administrator Fires Deputies, Then Resigns, Amid Spending Inquiry
By JONATHAN WEISMAN
Published: April 2, 2012
WASHINGTON - The administrator of the General Services Administration fired her two top deputies, then resigned Monday ahead of an investigation into a conference the agency held in Las Vegas that included commemorative coins, lavish meals, a mind reader and a $75,000 team-building exercise assembling bicycles.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gsa-chief-resigns-amid-reports-of-excessive-spending/2012/04/02/gIQABLNNrS_story_1.html
GSA chief resigns amid reports of excessive spending
By Lisa Rein and Joe Davidson, Published: April 2The Washington Post

The chief of the General Services Administration resigned, two of her top deputies were fired and four managers were placed on leave Monday amid reports of lavish spending at a conference off the Las Vegas Strip that featured a clown, a mind reader and a $31,208 reception.

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