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Anyone who bothered to read the article would see the fake news in the title.
* Purchase desk July 11 for $2700 + $575 shipping.
* Discovered the desk to be a horrible design. Details in article.
* Purchase new desk for $2900.
* Cost of original refunded.
* Return freight paid by trade rep personally.
When Progs are told by their bird dogs to become outraged, they do so. No questions. Read all their posts declaring personal outrage.
I would suggest, before making such a blanket statement, you perform a perfunctory audit of all threads on this forum to discern to what extent BOTH sides resort to default programming.
An objective, non-prejudiced observer with no dog in the hunt would tell you both sides are guilty of puppet stringing.
I've got an executive desk in my house that was probably $2500
Yes, in your house. You can do what you want in your house with your own money. This is taxpayer money being spent by people that claim to want to cut down on government waste.
I personally don't care that $4000 was spent on a desk. Hopefully it was at least made in the USA. Too much breath has been wasted on the topic. However, I think people should at least recognize that there is waste going on.
I agree the title is misleading but I wish people in government would buy as if it is their money. Agreed that isn't really a lot for a executive desk but a quality sturdy one could be bought for half the price without a 500 shipping fee either.
This^ it's not a partison issue and it's not just about a desk. These politicians, staff and other appointees are given huge budgets and spend a fortune on stuff like this desk. I spent years working in HR and know what people earned and their benefit packages. Even new presidents, CFOs etc of companies worth millions used the furniture given to them. If they wanted something special they bought it themselves.
As many are so fond of saying, "they get to freely enjoy spending other people's money?" People can spend whatever they like on desks when they buy it themselves but I have a right to take issue when my tax dollars are paying for it. We all pay for this ****, so they can have a new office designed to their taste. These are temporary jobs, a new appointee comes in and gets his/her own new stuff. How much money are we spending on them? I don't know but it's certainly a lot. Very few people are given a redecorating budget when they start a new job because it's ridiculous, no private company would give away money like that. I don't give a **** what party they belong to, R, D or Independent, it's time to reign in their spending.
Andrew McCabe, the disgraced Deputy Director of the FBI spent $70k (not a misprint) on a table for his office.
He also got caught illegally leaking to the media & lying under oath on multiple associations. The left was so outraged that they voluntarily sent him hundreds of thousands of dollars for his defense fund.
This is disgusting! If you look at median incomes, 4K is more than the majority of people make in a month. All these politicians and other representatives should be supplied with basic office furniture like every other worker in this country. If they want something special they can pay for it themselves. This country is in major debt but they still seem to come up with plenty of money to give politicians massively expensive benefits payed for by the taxpayers.
If people had ANY real understanding of how taxpayer money is squandered every single day in every government office we might have a revolution. People freak out about entitlements and gov employee salaries but that is nothing compared to the countless ways money is WASTED every single day. The beaurocracy “creates” it ‘s own “studies”, “projects” and initiatives, each costing hundreds of thousands of dollars simply to justify their existenan e. With nothing to show. Nothing new here.
I can’t understand how these big spenders get away with all of this. They don’t have to justify these expenses? More Swamp in the White House.
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