Federal Government Made $20 Billion in Secret Purchases in Recent Months
Posted By Staff
Date: October 31st, 2014
Category: Bizarre, Government, Politics
Washington DC – The federal government has spent at least $20 billion in taxpayer money this year on items and services that it is permitted to keep secret from the public, according to an investigation by the News4 I-Team.
The purchases, known among federal employees as “micropurchases,” are made by some of the thousands of agency employees who are issued taxpayer-funded purchase cards.
The purchases, in most cases, remain confidential and are not publicly disclosed by the agencies.
A sampling of those purchases, obtained by the I-Team via the Freedom of Information Act, reveals at least one agency used those cards to buy $30,000 in Starbucks Coffee drinks and products in one year without having to disclose or detail the purchases to the public. More
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October 31st, 2014 at 10:28 am
Nobody pays for my Starbucks coffee – in face I don’t drink it because it is too expensive.
October 31st, 2014 at 10:30 am
This is nuts. We are being drained dry by these freeloaders.
October 31st, 2014 at 10:31 am
They should be buying their own damn coffee.
October 31st, 2014 at 10:35 am
THIS HAS TO STOP!
Is it going to take a revolution? NO, IT CAN’T. Our elected officials have to step up and cut these STUPID expenses off… INCLUDING their OWN. DAMN I’M MAD AS HELL!
October 31st, 2014 at 4:46 pm
Does NO ONE make their own coffee anymore? Not buying Starbucks swill for a week would save enough money to buy a decent coffee maker. But I suppose govt employees aren’t known for their mental prowess.