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As the economy reels from bailout mania, millions of American businesses and families are cutting back their spending on non-essentials. One example, no doubt, is that many fewer businesses will host fancy holiday parties to celebrate the year that was. Rest easy though, dear taxpayer, for though you may not enjoy the privilege of a celebration yourself, your beloved Department of the Treasury will soldier on and hold a big self-congratulatory holiday party for themselves this Thursday, December 11. I received an invitation (more on that in a moment) emblazoned with fancy type and a photo of a gift with a big red bow on it. One can only guess the contents of the gift, though my vote is more taxpayer money for failures.
And get this...Treasury employees and acolytes will celebrate their terrific year of unparalleled success in solving all of our problems in "The Cash Room." I can only imagine that the room is so named because that's where the vital "create $700 billion out of thin air" machine is.
As for the invitation, I still have no clue how someone in the Treasury Department managed to put me on the wrong list. I figured that NTU's unequivocal opposition to the bailout, our strongly-worded letters, or the hardball questions I fired at Treasury officials in closed-door meetings would have succeeded in earning me a spot on the coveted Treasury Department Holiday Party blacklist. Alas, it was a bridge too far, even for someone with loose lips like me.
Treasury's Bailout Party in "The Cash Room"
Posted by Andrew Moylan - December 09, 2008Thoughts? Add Comment -
said on Dec 09 2008 at 9:05am
So do you plan to attend?
Andrew Moylan said on Dec 09 2008 at 9:24am
PFFFT!!! No, I do not.
Chris said on Dec 09 2008 at 9:39am
How about a protest?
rastajenk said on Dec 09 2008 at 12:21pm
You should go and take pix...a la zombietime.
PD Quig said on Dec 09 2008 at 12:58pm
I know it's asking a lot, but I can think of worse places to wear a suicide vest.
ginger said on Dec 09 2008 at 1:03pm
I used to work at Main Treasury.
The Cash Room is a lovely historic room where once upon a time there was cash stored. Last time I was in it I was giving blood.
PD Quig said on Dec 09 2008 at 1:13pm
Now the whole country is giving blood there.
Patrick Carroll said on Dec 09 2008 at 1:20pm
What's it going to take for the peasants to take up pitchforks and guillotines on the naitonal mall?
Paul A'Barge said on Dec 09 2008 at 1:26pm
When Michelle Obama tells Barak Hussein Obama to "let the American people eat cake", we'll all be lined up with the guillotines.
Bruce Rheinstein said on Dec 09 2008 at 2:45pm
Party like it's 1931!
Seriously, if you're not going to use the invitation, how about letting one of your loyal readers go, instead?
Even though the event is likely to be as exciting as a Rosie O'Donnell prime time special, I promise to bring back a report on the steamy high times and decadent pleasures of our Washington civil service elite.
AnAverageAmerican said on Dec 09 2008 at 9:34pm
I'm from the government, and this won't hurt a bit.