You’ll
Never Guess How Much EPA Employees Were Paid to Misbehave, 12/23/14,
The pile of BS American taxpayers
are helping to fund keeps getting thicker and thicker.
If you were to get in a fight with
your boss you’d be lucky to keep your job. If your workplace found out that you
were being charged with a crime, you’d be extremely lucky if you managed to
remain employed.
If you work for the EPA you could
can do all of the above and not only keep your job, but get paid to stay at
home, sit on your duff, and watch as much Netflix as you desire.
According
to both the Government Accountability Office and the Environmental Protection
Agency’s Inspector General, eight EPA employees were paid more than $1 million
while on paid administrative leave. These eight employees were on paid leave
for at least four months. Four of them were on leave for more than a year,
including one who was away for more than four years.
From 2011
to 2013, the EPA paid $17,550,100 in paid leave salaries, not including
benefits, for 69 employees.
A Nov. 19
EPA report confirmed that eight employees had a total of 20,926 hours of
administrative leave, costing taxpayers an estimated $1,096,868 from January
2010 to Sept. 2014. The report was in response to an Oct. 17 GAO study on paid
administrative leave in the federal government, which will be released in April
2015.
GAO
auditors found that from fiscal years 2011 to 2013, the EPA paid $17,550,100 in
paid leave salaries, not including benefits, for 69 employees.
Government personnel regulations
state that paid leave for employees related to misconduct should be used only
in “rare circumstances.” According to the Washington Post, employees on paid
leave continued to collect a salary, pension, vacations, sick days and even
climb the federal pay scale.
This isn’t the first time that
employees at the EPA have been rewarded for misconduct. Earlier this year an
EPA employee was allowed to keep his job after watching hundreds of hours of porn while on the clock.
And another scandal that broke
inside the EPA was when an EPA employee by the name of John Beal was convicted
of posing as a CIA agent and stealing almost $900,000 in taxpayer money.
It’s reports like this that make
conservatives wonder how any liberals can have faith in the U.S. government. You
likely know from personal experience this kind of behavior wouldn’t be
tolerated in the private sector.
But if your paycheck is signed by
Uncle Sam, well then you’re covered financially no matter what you do!
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist
to realize that this kind of blatant corruption costs the American taxpayer
money. And no matter what you do, you can’t escape the tax man.
Source:http://teapartypolitics.com/epa-employees-paid-to-misbehave/
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