Posted on 09/24/2015 5:57:29 PM PDT by jazusamo
The federal agency that has the job of protecting the environment doesn’t seem to have too much concern for trees, at least the ones cut down to make furniture.
The Environmental Protection Agency over the past decade has spent a whopping $92.4 million to purchase, rent, install and store office furniture ranging from fancy hickory chairs and a hexagonal wooden table, worth thousands of dollars each, to a simple drawer to store pencils that cost $813.57.
The furniture shopping sprees equaled about $6,000 for every one of the agency’s 15,492 employees, according to federal spending data made public by the government watchdog OpenTheBooks.com.
And the EPA doesn’t buy just any old office furniture. Most of the agency’s contracts are with Michigan-based retailer Herman Miller Inc. According to the contracts, the EPA spent $48.4 million on furnishings from the retailer known for its high-end, modern furniture designs.
Just one of Herman Miller’s “Aeron” office chairs retails for nearly $730 on the store’s website. The EPA has spent tens of thousands of dollars to purchase and install those types of chairs in its offices.
The agency also paid another high-end retailer, Knoll Inc., nearly $5 million for furnishings. Knoll is known for its specialized modern furnishings, and 40 of its designs are on permanent display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Prison industries made the solid oak desks, chairs, filing cabinets and bookshelves I bought at a military surplus auction (DRMO) many years ago... refinished and a good new desk blotter from my local saddle shop has provided decades of service.......
Those lightbulbs from lighthouse for the blind ....not so much.
LOL! That video is classic.
Since the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate INTRAstate environmental issues, the EPA shouldn’t be costing the taxpayers a single penny.
In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified the following about Congress limited power to appropriate taxes.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The only reason that the EPA exists imo, is because the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Senate failed to protect the states as the Founding States had intended for the Senate to do. In the case of the EPA, the Senate failed to kill bills that helped to create and fund the EPA.
The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators and the unconstitutional federal agencies like the EPA that they helped to establish along with them.
The Republicans are doing a great job with the power of the purse.
Cost is no consideration or barrier.
The government will just extort more money from the few actual producers remaining in the USA.
Those desks that are built in Leavenworth will survive a nuclear blast. The only downside is you need a forklift to move one.
Ha!
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. - list of grievances; Declaration
Spotted owls make great pillows.
Amen, pretty high quality down.
“Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat”
It certainly is and our Marxist/socialist _resident has learned that well.
$6000 per employee for office furniture? That is flaunting wealth and it pisses me off all the more when I recall the long day I spent driving,loading and hauling HEAVY office furniture our boss bought at a firesale when an S&L went belly up in the early 90’s.
We outfitted 12 offices for less than $300/person.
Nothing is too good for our valued public servants. /s
Agree .... heavy SOB’s indeed....:o) They have stood the test of time !!!
The trick to those DRMO sales were to dig through the trash items ..... gold mines in those pallets ! Found 2 brand new, in the box, never issued USMC 10X Unertl Sniper scopes in a pallet of old deuce gear the marines had turned in to salvage. We got the pallet evidently before the person who stashed the scopes in there could get there to buy it...:o)
Stay Safe !!
If you’re buying it used then someone bought it new.
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