Auntie Charo's Soapbox

I just can't seem to get how stupid we are....we're adults. It was obvious we couldn't be trusted with the use of credit cards which were owned by GovGuam agencies......yet, it seems we continue to have them.....and use them.....and abuse them......and dumb as it seems.....we seem to think that the whole debacle will be saved because we have employed a bean counter to over see the use(or abuse) of same....let me tell you how things work in the government of Guam. I'm the boss. I use the card. I tell the bean counter. I have the receipt. Re0imburse me the funds and I'll give you the receipts tomorrow..........alas! Tomorrow never comes.....or, the receipts aren't complete, or they're in Chinese or Korean or because the massage came from same! Ooops, I mean present....as in gift! Physical or the other kind that's wrapped in paper!
So instead of stopping the use of the company card.....we're just gonna hire bean counters and continue hearing from Doris-OPA-Brooks advise that we can't be trusted with the use of same.....and magically, we'll appear on t.v. and smile and tell the public who we think we're fooling that we have hired a bean counter that'll take care of the situation.....anyway, we're gonna borrow a zillion dollars from the bond market, hell, we'll be swimming in money, who the hell cares if we over spent or, abused the credit card.
What's so pathetic about this story is that the two directors of GVB that were responsible for the agency at the time the cards were being mis-used(allegedly-if you don't believe Brooks' audit) will smile and pretend that nothing happened. Hell, one of those guys has a high and mighty position in another office..........
Kinda not fair that we punish some and not the others.....