Fri, 07 Feb 2003
Do Your State's DOT And Roads Suck?
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports that Penn DOT's stream of expenses and credit cards is so ludicrous as to be laughable:
As part of the audit, Casey's Office of Special Investigations raised concerns because 588 PennDOT employees possessed 1,097 Commonwealth Purchasing Cards -- credit and charge cards tied to providers like American Express Co.
Terrific. As if it's not bad enough that we've got the worst fucking roads in the country, we now find out that while these nimrods should be out fixing the roads, they're shopping at Wal-Mart with 2 Amex cards per employee! Maybe they'd like to come over and pay for my car's wrecked suspension with one of those spare amex cards?
All this from the organization that admonishes us not to think of it as road construction but a labor of love (you'll see the signs along the turnpike - yet another bad use of taxpayer dollars). Give me a fucking break! If this was a real gig, they'd have been fired ten mistakes ago.
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