IRS, EPA compete for most bizarre scandal

Posted on June 9, 2013 

Fake employees who win awards. Workers building comfy warehouse hideaways. Big bucks shelled out for for pricey “happiness experts.” And professionally produced office dance videos.  No, it’s not the plot of a “Seinfeld” episode. It’s just the daily goings-on at the U.S. federal government.  But no one’s laughing at the waste of taxpayer money and the violation of public trust. (Or the IRS’s Gilligan’s Island-themed training video. It just wasn’t funny.) The last few days have produced story after story of astounding government incompetence.

An Inspector General Report issued Monday found that an EPA warehouse in Maryland stores all sorts of unused—and expensive!—equipment, purchased on the taxpayer dime and now gathering dust, including computers and pianos. (Read more  in National Journal.)  The IRS and EPA must be in a competition for who can produce the most bizarre scandal……. Government incompetence is out of control. The federal bureaucracy has grown too big to be accountable, too labyrinthine to be transparent.  In the past few weeks, the nation has learned more and more about the abuses of the IRS in its targeting of conservative groups....To Read More....