U.S. Postal service gambles with the people's money.

    Corruption seems to find it's place in pretty much any institution, group, or any governmental establishment. Lately corruption and fraud has found its way through the U.S. post office and its employees ever since they were given government credit cards. Workers have not only withdrawn money, but they have used it for personal expenses, gambling, personal bills, and other expenses. There have been several incidents regarding the use of taxpayer's money for personal interests. One of them being a manager withdrawing $32,000 to gamble and used a government credit card to rent cars and pay gas, he then blamed it on another manager saying he withdrew $42,000. Another employee paid herself $8,500 dollars in salary and gave herself travel advances in one month. Another employee used a travel card for personal cash advances and hotel stays. The worker's were compensated with disciplinary actions. These activities go to show that our money that we pay still goes into the wrong hands, even when we have a national debt that needs to be paid. I'm pretty sure things like this have been going on for a while in government agencies which explains a lot of the problems that have been going on in our country. It is never quite clear who has the authority to spend money from government funds and how that money is protected to prevent things like this from happening. Not only are there frauds that are stealing money, but government institutions pointlessly spend money on things that can add up to $1.5 million like the EPA storing unused pamphlets and brochures in a warehouse in Ohio.  In fiscal year 2013, the entire federal government spent $1.3 million on alcohol. General Services also held a conference in Las Vegas that included a $31,208 reception. To think that people higher than us are using money that is being taken out of our paycheck is egregious. It's disrespectful to the citizens who play their part in paying taxes and manage to get by in an unstable economy.

"Wasteful Government Spending, Post Office Edition" Teapartypatriots.com, Conger Michal, Swarts Phillip, March 27th 2014