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Federal officials blasted for spending $3.3 BILLION on office furniture while employees worked from HOME - including $250K on solar-powered picnic tables for the CDC and $120K on luxurious leather recliners for just one US embassy
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| 4 October 2023
| WILL POTTER
Posted on 10/05/2023 6:12:58 AM PDT by george76
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:12:58 AM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
A solar powered picnic table? What did it do? Provide laptop charging? Grill eggs?
To: george76
Politicians spend like it’s someone else’s money.
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:15:32 AM PDT
by
Spok
(It takes a lot of learning to understand how little we know. (Paraphrasing Thomas Sowell.))
To: george76
The ‘spend it or lose it” rule of government spending should be ended immediately.
If they save money from their last budget they should give a 10% reward to the employees.
I bet we balance the budge in just a couple of years.
Also, any government fraud or waste reported- 10% reward to the person who reports it. Maybe amnesty to anyone who self-reports for the first year, mandatory minimum 20 years jail for anyone else.
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:16:43 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
To: george76
Our corrupt government is awash in money. They need to cut middle class taxes by 25% and make do.
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:16:47 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: george76
What in the world is a solar powered picnic table?
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:17:03 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected. No Baggage, No Drama.)
To: Spok
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:17:13 AM PDT
by
leaning conservative
(snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
To: george76
Well that’s $3,000,000,000 that Ukraine won’t get. On the serious side at the end of the decade we’ll have about $45,000,000,000,000 in federal debt at the present rate, it’s about then that this country as we know it will collapse.
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:17:54 AM PDT
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
To: george76
Solar
The grift that keeps on griffting
The grift that never ends
The perpetual grift machine
The 4th branch of US .gov
Executive
Legislative
Judicial
Grifter
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:18:53 AM PDT
by
cuz1961
(USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
To: george76
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:19:17 AM PDT
by
Rusty0604
(Despthaerately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
To: george76
Bet those solar powered picnic tables don’t last but about 30 days, and they’ll probably try installing them in Portland Oregon where it rains 300 days out of the year or an Anchorage Alaska where there’s no sunlight for a good portion of the year.
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:19:47 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected. No Baggage, No Drama.)
To: Reno89519
Portland averages 164 days a year of some precipitation but as a DeSantis backer, I don’t expect facts from your type.
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:23:52 AM PDT
by
MTBobcat
(The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
To: george76
Solar Powered Picnic Table, reminds me of the guy back in the 1970s who was selling a Solar Powered Clothes Dryer, people sent him $10 and he sent them a roll of clothesline and some clothes pins.
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:27:19 AM PDT
by
euram
(allALL)
To: MTBobcat; Reno89519
He may thinking of Seattle
Seattle has an average 226 cloudy days a year and 156 rainy days
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:30:59 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: george76
"Federal officials blasted for spending $3.3 BILLION on office furniture while employees worked from HOME."DAMN..! Just how much interest are the banks paying in Ukraine.!! Sounds like the lawyers of DC are making out like fat rats.!!
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:32:15 AM PDT
by
unread
(I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
To: Mr. K
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:32:53 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
To: Pearls Before Swine
Probably for the fairy lights within the umbrellas.
Ridiculous.
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:34:56 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
To: george76
Behind every dollar the U.S. government spends, there’s an industry that lobbies hard to get it … and employees who vote for politicians who spend that dollar because some of the money ends up in the pockets of those employees.
My tagline applies to this situation perfectly.
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:36:20 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
To: Alberta's Child
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:39:25 AM PDT
by
Reily
(!!)
To: george76
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:51:02 AM PDT
by
aquila48
(Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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