WRONG: These are many annual memberships of $399 per person, in accordance with employee wellness program, not one employee's membership.pic.twitter.com/W3jXlByCk4
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What's next, @Heritage?
And, if Daily Caller/Daily Signal/Heritage just took this spoon-fed from ATR & @GroverNorquist, who they let give this quote ... phew.pic.twitter.com/joxuXioqvH
Anyway, here it is at Daily Caller, too:http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/13/epa-staffer-uses-government-credit-card-to-buy-15k-gym-membership/ …
Lol @ the author defending this. [And still being wrong even in his version of his defense. He can't read his own documents.]pic.twitter.com/frd9vKjdRd
Daily Caller reporter gets fed documents showingpic.twitter.com/TPH37AAmk3
Reporter can't read the full document, including seeing the number 37 ...pic.twitter.com/T8z1365abA
Or, apparently, see that the last four pages of the documents he used shows that it's not 19 (which he says now but wasn't in his article).
tl;dr: @AndrewCFollett is either a very bad reporter, can't read, or just wanted to spend an afternoon trolling @cjane87 and me. I'm tired.
STORY "... a $14,799 gym membership." / "Kevin Broadnax bought a 37-year membership ..." / "... his nearly $15,000 membership." VS. TWEETSpic.twitter.com/8AqLkpR23B
The story at the Daily Caller has been updated. It is still wrong and is now also grammatically incoherent. (h/t @cjane87)pic.twitter.com/VWszgwQzc3
BELATED CORRECTION: The Daily Caller corrected the hed and 2nd graf (but kept the odd first fix-ish opening graf). http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/13/epa-staffer-uses-government-credit-card-to-buy-15k-gym-membership/ …pic.twitter.com/oRfbhFW1YT
So, this is the full ~evolution~ of that Daily Caller story. Note: It does not mention any correction was ever made.pic.twitter.com/CX8EKmEDe3
So the government is in the habit of providing gym memberships for employees? Shouldn't come from tax dollars.
Wellness programs long-term are supposed to reduce health care costs. So it's supposed to save us money. It's why private cos do it too.
And yet...we're billions of dollars in debt because of reckless gov spending. So many in poverty & taxes paying for gym memberships?
Better than taxes paying for even higher health care costs. Which this is supposed to help with. Which is why private companies do it too.
That's the entire point of these wellness programs. (1) Better productivity because your workers are out less, and (2) lower healthcare cost
The theory is, long term, it pays for itself and then some. Maybe the theory is wrong. But a lot of for-profit entities are doing it.
You could buy your own gym equipment for that
Does your gym membership cost less than $30 a month? Seems pretty reasonable to me.
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