General Services Administration knows how to Party!

This one really blew my mind.

The General Services Administration managed to spend more than $600,000 over budget for its 2010 conference in Las Vegas. The four-day Las Vegas conference came with an $823,000 bill. Expenses included:

-$75,000 bike-building activity
-$6,325 for commemorative coins
-$8,130 for souvenir books
-$7,000 for sushi rolls
-a clown, a comedian and a mind reader
 
Bike building?  commemorative coins? A MIND READER?? I hope that in 2011 they retained the services of a psychic so that they would anticipate that people would think they were completely insane to be spending this type of money - especially when the economy is in the shitter.

UCCS Scribe article about GSA's 2010 Conference

CNN article discussing congressional hearing