In a report on ABC news, it seems that Social Security Administration has taken almost 700 of its executives on a $700,000 luxury trip to Phoenix to relieve stress. While I applaud the attempt at encouraging employee efficiency and perhaps improving service, I question the timing, the logic, and the appropriateness of conducting such an event when the average American is hard pressed to buy groceries.
My suggestion would have been to hold an event that would encourage the executives to SAVE rather than WASTE taxpayer money. After all, Social Security is broke—it has NO money. Perhaps the organizers could have conducted a workshop on how not to send Social Security checks to dead people. It was just recently reported that as many as 10,000 stimulus checks were sent to people who were not only deceased, but who had never been enrolled in Social Security.
I do want to have confidence in government, but actions such as this make it reeeeeally difficult. Isn’t this reminiscent of the trip the government complained about the AIG execs taking?
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