Working for The General Services Administration (GSA) certainly continues to have it's perks that few corporate America jobs can rival in these dark, economic times.  Back in July of 2011, the GSA sent a half dozen people on vacation to Hawaii at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer to do some intense "ground-breaking" on a new FBI building that allegedly lasted one hour if you count from the time they left the beach after their morning snorkeling outing to the time they arrived at the staged, well-dressed single photo shoot.  The photographer spared no expense ensuring the photo was made from a distance with a minimum of digging activity, keeping the overpaid and under-worked employees faces blurry to protect them from any ridicule, such as leaked stories of morning snorkeling and late night drinking.  However, it did include a delightful random plant that appears to be wilting from the intense July tropical heat, ill-placed in a desolate patch of what seems to be completely nourishment-challenged dirt.

Next time you are planning to flush another twenty grand down the toilet, just buy a throw-away camera, rent a cargo van from a guy named Hank at Enterprise and take your picture down on Virginia Beach while the metal detector squads are hawking for loot.  Not only will no one know the difference, no one will care...like they do now...after discovering yet another case of blatant misuse of our tax dollars, you shameless scandal-mongering bastards.

Compared to the General Services Administration inspector general being told that the agency spent as much as $330,000 to move an employee (yes, no typo there, just ONE employee) from Denver to Hawaii, spending maybe twenty grand to fly people out to a tropical paradise for lame PR seems like a steal.

Good thing there is an oversight committee to catch these fringe cases of overspending.

p.s.  This paled in comparison to the $830,000 bash in Vegas discovered a week later.  So why do some people trust the government with our tax dollars and want even more government?