Via The Corner, here is Austin Hill working up some righteous populist outrage at Townhall.com:
Last week the Social Security Administration flew approximately 700 of its managers from across the U.S. and Guam to Phoenix, Arizona’s posh Arizona Biltmore Hotel and Resort, for “organizational training.” The event, which included musical entertainment and dancing, skits, catered food,
cocktails, and a “casino night” featuring “door prizes,” cost us lowly taxpayers approximately $750,000.
Seriously? SSA managed to put together a three-day corporate training session for $1,071 per person? That’s…..unbelievable.
Seriously. That’s unbelievable. SSA must have some world class penny-pinching accountants and event planners on their staff. I doubt there’s a corporation in America that would even try to budget less than two grand a head for something like this.
And why did SSA hold their training session at the “posh” Arizona Biltmore? Let me take a guess: because it’s 120 degrees in the shade in Phoenix during July. The heat hits you like an anvil and the Biltmore practically gives rooms away for free in order to keep the place from turning into a ghost town. SSA probably paid less than they would have at a Holiday Inn in Schaumburg.
(Yep. $85 per night it says here. That’s really cheap for a hotel with convention facilities for 700 people.)
Apparently this has been the outrage du jour among conservatives for the past few days. Sad. If they knew anything about how the real world works they’d be applauding, not catcalling.
