Our Beloved Federal Workers

[blacklabman]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/23/AR2007042301563.html?hpid=topnews

Fraud is fraud. Fire them all!

 

[Lenny]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/23/AR2007042301563.html?hpid=topnews

Fraud is fraud. Fire them all!

Sounds an awful lot like the "Chocolatetown" swindles from St Katrina's blessing a couple years ago. Wonder how many of those will face charges.

 

[Pete]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/23/AR2007042301563.html?hpid=topnews

Fraud is fraud. Fire them all!

Claim there don't know when they sign a pledge and it has a warning on the ticket.

$17M and it is not worth putting 5 or 10 investigators to catch these people?

 

[Sharon]

"The only reason I know about it is, one girl who smokes out here, one morning a contractor came up and handed her some money, and she said she was selling her Metrocheks," said the woman, 49, a Federal Highway Administration employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "I guess free money is free money."

That money isn't free.

I agree, fire those that abused their benefits.

 

[Ken King]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/23/AR2007042301563.html?hpid=topnews

Fraud is fraud. Fire them all!

Agreed, fire the bastages.

 

[PrchJrkr]

Agreed, fire the bastages.

Can you believe I did a search on ebay for "Metrochek" and there are 3 active auctions? United for Bush!

 

[MJ]

Can you believe I did a search on ebay for "Metrochek" and there are 3 active auctions? United for Bush!

Oops! I better take those down.

 

[MMDad]

Agreed, fire the bastages.

Even better, end the program. This fraud proves that the subsidy does not work, so it needs to go away. One more socialist program down the drain.

 

[FromTexas]

What sucks is how this will probably penalize those who use them appropriately. It needs better auditing, but I hope they don't start making them really hard to get for those who are doing their best to use the benefit as directed.

 

[gumby]

I work for the federal government and I carpool 50 miles each way and I can't even get a compressed work schedule. These a$$hole that abuse the metrochek system need to be fired.

 

[aps45819]

I work for the federal government and I carpool 50 miles each way and I can't even get a compressed work schedule. These a$$hole that abuse the metrochek system need to be fired.

They need to be prosecuted for fraud.

 

[UpChuckMan]

What sucks is how this will probably penalize those who use them appropriately.

Especially, since we got this Great Benefit (which amounts to about $1,200/year) instead of the pay mandated by LAW in the "Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990"... supposedly because there has been a "national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare" ... for every year since the law was inacted. OPM reported that in 2000, salaries for federal professionals lagged behind private pay by an average of 32 percent. (http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=3992&sequence=0)