Clinton's State Department spent $5.4 million on 'crystal stemware'

The Washington Examiner ^ | 10-27-16 | Sarah Westwood

[afraidfortherepublic]

Hillary Clinton's State Department spent millions of taxpayer dollars on lavish goods and frivolous initiatives, such as a $5.4 million "no-bid contract for crystal stemware" and $630,000 to "increase Facebook likes on four State Department pages." The expenditures appeared in a 21-page memo, prepared by the Republican National Committee, that documented the financial mismanagement that occurred at the State Department under Clinton's watch.

While wasteful spending is a familiar find at most federal agencies, Clinton presided over particularly expensive unsuccessful reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Her agency spent more than $600 million on failed projects in those two countries alone, according to the RNC memo.

The projects included a $3.6 million fleet of "unused broadcast TV trucks" in Afghanistan and $167.5 million on "preventable cost overruns while expanding embassy Kabul."

The State Department spent an additional $9.8 million on purchases the GOP characterized as "frivolous," such as the $79,000 in taxpayer funds Clinton's agency used to buy up copies of President Obama's book or the $53,004 her agency spent on "marble polishing services" at the U.S. embassy in Brasilia "during the summer of 2010."

[ilovesarah2012]

http://www.worldairportawards.com/Awards/worlds_best_airport.html

[fishtank]

[HiTech RedNeck]

America’s Imelda Marcos, but with crystal rather than shoes.

[mewzilla]

I imagine there are some American businesses/artisans who, in certain cases, would be happy to donate goods/services just for the prestige use of those goods/services would offer. If not, then the bloody striped pants brigade can pay for their own damn stemware.

[unixfox]

These people should be tied to a post and whipped with a horsewhip, and then made to pay back that money.

Just have the IRS take it directly from their bank account. That's what they would do to us "ordinary" citizens.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I meant the Olympia not the stemware

[ColdOne]

I knew it. When she was SoS I used to say she is going all over the world to embassy’s stocking up the crystal and booze hutches.

[AndyJackson]

Most of this looks excessive, but anyone who knows anything about marble fabrication services would recognize that "53,004" on "marble polishing services" at the U.S. embassy in Brasilia "during the summer of 2010," could, depending upon the amount of marble and labor for resurfacing, be a legitimate expense.

Polishing marble requires correct machinery. You don't just like wipe it with a cloth.

[liberalh8ter]

We should have let her keep the stuff she stole from the WH....it would have been cheaper.

[ColdOne]

She gets the gig.....you aint seen nothing yet. She will be the first woman worth a trillion dollars via taxpayer.

[ETL]

Correction: Clinton’s State Department spent $5.4 million OF OUR HARD-EARNED MONEY on ‘crystal stemware’

[HiTech RedNeck]

You need some cleaner too

[FrankR]

Here we are, struggling to figure out how to pay our many taxes, Obamacare, and put food on the table, and a taxpayer funded government is spending this kind of money on STEMWARE?

It’s torch and pitchfork time.

[mewzilla]

The Seaport’s Board of Wardens, and they’re quite an assemblage of talent, haven’t found a way to raise $20 mil? That surprises me.

[TangoLimaSierra]

I hope she dies.
She probably will....right after the election.

But, then she would die happy. I don't want that.

[fwdude]

I hope she dies.

[TangoLimaSierra]

When you don’t have to pay for your stuff, you don’t care how much the wine glasses cost.

She should have to repay every extravagance.

[Kickass Conservative]

Don’t forget the Billions wasted in Iraq building the new Embassy under Bush. They all screw over the Taxpayers.

[b4its2late]

Did she take that with her when she left?

[castlegreyskull]

It is probably in her house.