Govt employees must pay own way!

Cancel the damn program if it's being so flagrantly misused. Why are govt employees more deserving than any other commuter? Are they a special class of workers? No, they are not, they are job slaves like any other and shouldn't be afforded special privileges. Instead take the mountain of cash being wasted on these office trolls and use it subsidize commuter travel for households earning less than $20K annually. That would put to good use what would otherwise be squandered thoughtlessly. What's next? Allowing govt employees to use HOV lanes?

GAO Finds Fraud in Commuter Program
Federal Workers Selling Transit Cards

By Lyndsey Layton
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 24, 2007; Page A01

It's a perk of federal employment: a free monthly subsidy that pays for commutes on public transportation. But scores of workers have been taking the government for a ride, selling their benefits on the Internet and pocketing millions in cash each year.

The program, which covers 300,000 federal employees nationwide, has been abused by workers across a variety of agencies, the Government Accountability Office will report to Congress today. Workers in the Washington region alone have defrauded the government of at least $17 million a year, with the actual figure probably several million dollars higher, according to the GAO.

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