The Center has found that millions of dollars in improper government employee charges were uncovered in a 15-month spot check of several agencies by Congressional auditors.
A sample of $2.7 million in card purchases found more than $1.8 million worth of laptop computers, iPods and digital cameras had vanished, nowhere to be found.
No one has yet determined the full extent of waste, fraud and abuse by federal employees using government credit cards.
CDFE is no friend of regulation. Keeping government employees honest is not regulation, it's a duty to We the People. Congress must following through on the Senate proposal now under consideration to impose regular audits by each department’s inspectors general, require second-party approval of credit purchases, deny cards to federal workers with poor personal credit and fire offenders for blatant abuses.
CDFE thinks government workers must meet a higher standard than the average credit card user - it's not their credit they're using, it's ours. That means no reprimands for abuses, fire them.
There are about 300,000 federal employees with government credit cards. We don't doubt that nearly all are honest. We know quite a few of them ourselves. They're even madder than us at the credit card abusers who give the whole government work force a bad name.
Weed out the abusers. Leave the honest government workers with a good name that can proudly be called public service.
