Your Taxes Paid Thousands Of Government
Staff Covid Unemployment While They Worked
From Home
The Federalist,
by
Jordan Boyd
Original Article
Posted By: Ketchuplover,
1/31/2023 1:03:53 AM
While millions of jobless Americans struggled to make ends meet during devastating government-mandated lockdowns, thousands of federal employees double-dipped from taxpayer-funded pandemic unemployment funds while mostly working from home.
Despite staying on taxpayers’ payroll during the height of the pandemic panic, greedy bureaucrats in the Internal Revenue Service, Transportation Security Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, United States Postal Service, Amtrak, and the Secret Service defrauded taxpayers out of millions more dollars under the guise of Covid unemployment fund and wage assistance programs. In the Department of Homeland Security alone, nearly 2,000 ineligible or potentially ineligible employees
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PaleAle 1/31/2023 1:34:43 AM (No. 1390961)
The simple response is to fire them, make them repay it with interest, and bar them from ever holding a government position or contract.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy 1/31/2023 1:40:59 AM (No. 1390963)
Add criminal fines to everything #1 said.
23 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
jalo1951 1/31/2023 2:38:41 AM (No. 1390987)
The Deep State is far, and wide, and deep and involves a lot more than people who are "elected/cheated" their way into office. That is the main reason they must destroy Trump. He is the only one who ever stood up and called them out. They DO NOT want their gravy train messed with. And I mean all of them.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 1/31/2023 4:42:55 AM (No. 1391017)
Sounds like fraud to me. Anybody else would be charged, convicted and have to repay. I'm not holding my breath.
15 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 1/31/2023 5:18:54 AM (No. 1391034)
Okay hundreds of citizens are in the DC jail for 1/6, yet Government employees steal millions of $$$ from the taxpayers through Covid fraud, and are still employed by the Government. See the wrong here. Get the $$$ back from the crooked Government employees and arrest them all for fraud. Try them all for the crime and let them serve time in the Big House. BTW free the 1/6 prisoners, they merely protested against their Government and did not defraud the Government.
13 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
skacmar 1/31/2023 6:37:42 AM (No. 1391062)
These government workers are the same ones that some in Congress deserve an additional pay increase because they worked during Covid? They are no better than the gangs of shoplifters plaguing our cities today. And like the shoplifter gangs, the tax paying public can only helplessly stand by and watch as nothing is done about it.
11 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/31/2023 6:47:13 AM (No. 1391070)
Our government is little more than a giant redistribution center......our wealth to their pockets.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/31/2023 6:58:33 AM (No. 1391074)
Come on now, you know they were overdue for bonuses. Hey, let's cover their bonuses with covid money. You break into a diamond store to steal the top diamond, but why not take a few of these other diamonds while you're in there. Good grief! these people.
4 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Felixed 1/31/2023 7:13:09 AM (No. 1391081)
Stories like this, piling up one after another, could put a big dent in somebody's optimism for America's future.
As they should. This isn't a nightmare in sleep, it is real in broad daylight.
Hopium is one thing. Smoking it may or may not be helpful.
But preparing to survive the threats and turmoil fast upon us should at least get a little attention.
6 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
mifla 1/31/2023 7:24:20 AM (No. 1391094)
Tell me again how we are not paying our "fair share".
McCarthy should call a press conference and tell all taxpayers what is going on. Then ask the DOJ what they intend to do about it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
msjena 1/31/2023 7:48:26 AM (No. 1391105)
It is outrageous that federal workers have not returned to the office. Where I work, we have been back since June of 2021, with limited work-from-home. Why should taxpayer dollars pay for offices when no one is there? Or more to the point, why are federal workers allowed to work with no oversight, given their track record of incompetent, lackadaisical work?
8 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
cor-vet 1/31/2023 8:33:25 AM (No. 1391156)
I guess this is why they need an 8.7% raise!
If you steal from your employer, in the private sector, you get fired, unless you're the bosses son. Start firing!
5 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/31/2023 9:49:43 AM (No. 1391249)
And that is why they all need a raise. I would guess that management approved their actions.
1 person likes this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 1/31/2023 11:09:05 AM (No. 1391322)
Binding these workers ever more tightly to the ag3enda of the Deep State.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 1/31/2023 11:49:24 AM (No. 1391379)
Because the best health insurance coverage, retirement benefits, working conditions, high on the ladder salaries, and perks aren't enough.
3 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
red1066 1/31/2023 1:40:57 PM (No. 1391468)
I commented on here the other day about seeing four of our hardly working fed employees on a train trip to N.Y. for a shopping experience during the middle of the week.
0 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
TXknitter 1/31/2023 1:49:30 PM (No. 1391474)
The neighbor’s hubby retired military, then GS-14 from Pentagon. Last year at a Christmas party, he said as much or worse about the Federal employment system as we do here in the salon. He said taxpayers don’t know the half of the sheer waste and corruption. He said the few Republicans he did work around all hated Trump. Lifers know the Uniparty takes care of their gravy train.
4 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 2/1/2023 12:36:19 PM (No. 1392182)
2,000 that they are aware of and "already several have been charged with fraud".
Why not all 2,000? I smell a cover up.
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