This morning CSPAN replayed the
Congressional hearings on the GSA scandal from earlier in the week. It was both disturbing and amusing at the
same time. As the Republican members
expressed their displeasure over the conduct of these civil servants, and got
on their soapboxes with the moral indignation of someone who has only the
taxpayers best interests at heart, the Democrats too expressed astonishment over the callous way these high-ranking
career civil servants had squandered “other peoples money.” These are the same politicians who cannot agree on a balanced budget, and think nothing of adding a $2M mark for a pet project to a funding bill! Now that is funny stuff.
I am sure a new round of legislation,
regulation, mandatory reporting, and new layers of lawyer oversight will be
implemented so these violations of public trust will “NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN!” When
we decide it is wrong to teach morality, when we allow everyone to believe they
can do whatever they want and there will be no repercussion how can this not
happen again? You cannot build an ever-larger
government without expecting ever-larger scandal from lower and lower levels of
the bureaucracy. At least not until robots replace all the civil servants, and then we have to worry about one of them violating Asimov's first law.
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