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In my prior long time career, I often met with the SEC , in DC. Security was tight long before 9/11. No one without authorization of a weapon gained access.
The condition of the physical space/ enviornment could best be described as a cramped dump. The running joke was to check the old stained chair before taking a seat because it might collapse.
If it was decided to continue the meeting over lunch, it was understood each SEC employees required a separate check. It was also obvious to the most casual observer, employees ordered soup or salad instead of entrees or sandwiches.
Given compensation is public information it was easy to see how staffers were routinely recruited by the private sector where they could earn multiples of their Governmrnt pay. It was and probably remains a revolving door of well educated, articulate and aggressive people, gaining regulatory experience and connections before moving on.
I never saw the office of the appointed SEC Commissioner. I suspect it was substantially better appointed than the space occupied by commissioners and their staffs.
Exactly, the idea that government employees can use taxpayer funds to buy new furniture and redecorate every time there is turnover due to an election is crazy. Carson can use the furniture that is already available or buy his own.
Looks like the average tenure of the Secretary of HUD is just shy of three years.
No it is not understandable. Why should everyone who gets an office also get a redecorating budget? I'm pretty sure, that doesn't happen in the private sector--why should the government do it just because the taxpayers are footing the bill?
Most federal government employees work in dank, cramped, dumpy space with an assortment of mismatched furniture.
It's absolutely ridiculous he is paying $31,000 of taxpayer money to redo his office whilst cutting billions from HUD.
He is just another grifter.
It's super ineffective that you play the race card everytime someone brings up a legitimate criticism of Carson.
I was hoping Trump would put a stop to this ridiculous kind of waste. Apparently a company can just charge the US government whatever price they want and our leaders happily write them a check. They don't live in the real world where 31K is a lot of money for most folks.
It's pretty outrageous that with as many taxpayers as we have in this country, every person would have to pay over 100K to pay off our national debt, but dribs and drabs of waste like this adds up. We elected these guys. They don't need to be treated as kings and queens.
"The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (Hud) has agreed to spend $165,000 on “lounge furniture” for its Washington headquarters, in addition to a $31,000 dining set purchased for housing secretary Ben Carson’s office."
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Really? Lol