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Paying For Bad Behavior

Wonderful… not. 

Taxpayers have paid out nearly $1 million per year in settlements to congressional employees who have been harassed or otherwise treated badly by their political bosses over the past 14 years, according to records from the Office of Compliance.

The payouts stem from hundreds of complaints from employees, some of whom may have been sexually harassed or treated so poorly that third-party mediators were brought in to negotiate cash payoffs to settle the cases.

In fiscal year 2007, for example, the OOC — an agency that administers a confidential dispute resolution system — settled 38 cases, with 25 resulting in monetary awards worth $4 million. In fiscal year 2009 — the most recent year reported by the OOC — the office settled 13 cases for nearly $830,000.

Posted by Owen at 2121 hrs
Politics + Politics - General

1. What’s that?  Politicians behaving like douchebags because they think they’re so important because they manage to win a popularity contest?  Nah that never happens.  Country first!  Yes we can!  Country First!  Yes we can!

   I wonder what the mindless chants for the upcoming popularity contest season and the 2012 big cheese popularity contest will be.

   Posted by Jay4Liberty on July 14, 2010 at 0654 hrs
   
   
   

2. But, these are the best of the best. The cream of the crop.
   So, when they screw up their fall should be swift, and hard. Oh,......that’s right, they get to write laws that protect themselves from those laws that pertain only to us, the commoners. Too much power, too little oversight.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 14, 2010 at 0902 hrs
   
   
   

3. Too much power, too little oversight.

   They don’t need more oversight, they need less power.  I’m sure it will all totally change in November so there’s nothing to worry aboutt.

   Posted by Jay4Liberty on July 14, 2010 at 1202 hrs
   
   
   

4. They don’t need more oversight, they need less power.

   My sentiments exactly.

   The suggestion that we need oversight for grown up human beings makes me think of an opinion piece in the “McNally Rag” I read today. An individual was suggesting that we need a bureaucracy to oversee the judicial system, because sometimes judges make bad decisions.

   Growing the government for the sake of growing the government is NEVER the answer.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 14, 2010 at 1653 hrs
   
   
   

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