GSA and Secret Service Scandals Reflection of America

By Bill Wilson

Daily Jot News Service

WASH–Apr 18–DJNS–News stories are focusing on dual government scandals revealed in the General Services Administration and the Secret Service where taxpayer money–your hard earned money–was spent on lavish parties and prostitutes. GSA’s Public Buildings Commissioner Robert Peck was fired after spending some $823,000 on a Las Vegas conference in violation of agency rules. He told AP that he didn’t know that taxpayers would be billed for his lavish parties. Now the Secret Service prostitution scandal has grown where 11 Secret Service agents and 10 military personnel hosted some 21 women and prostitutes in their rooms–at taxpayer expense–during the president’s recent trip to Columbia.

On April 14, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney refused to answer questions about the Secret Service scandal, referring members of the media to the Secret Service. Subsequent media efforts to gain information at the Secret Service office were met with no comment or no return of calls. The man who occupies the Oval Office, Carney later said on April 17, would be “angry” if the allegations are proven true. Carney also said that the president “has confidence in the Director of the Secret Service.” That view is not being held on Capital Hill where Congressmen are grilling officials about the possible security compromises of having hookers in secret service hotel rooms, with security plans in plain sight.

The GSA scandal, which occurred in 2010, has been known at GSA and other parts of the Administration since at least July 2011. At that time GSA’s deputy administrator emailed agency officials saying that there was no substantive agenda, expenses for clown suits, bicycles, tuxedos and a mind reader were not appropriate expenses. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, according to AP, made the email public. Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Ca., said “The Obama administration has not been upfront with the American people about how long they’ve known about lavish spending abuses at GSA.”  Congressman John Mica, R-Fl., said the stonewalling and lavish spending is “just the tip of the iceberg.”

These scandals reflect poorly not only on the federal government and the president, but also on Americans. The deeper problem is that these Secret Service and military personnel, as well as GSA executives and employees involved, felt entitled to abuse their positions. These are deep rooted cultural, character and moral issues surfacing. The leadership at the top is not holding people accountable to moral and ethic standards. We the People also have been lax in not only instilling these qualities in our children, but also demanding them of our leaders. Proverbs 29:2 says, “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” Could this be a result of the growing unpopularity of Biblical standards within our culture?

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