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Clinton's State Department spent $5.4 million on 'crystal stemware'
The Washington Examiner ^ | 10-27-16 | Sarah Westwood

Posted on 10/28/2016 8:31:30 AM PDT by 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."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crystal; hillary; statedepartment; waste
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To: mewzilla

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


21 posted on 10/28/2016 8:49:05 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: DesertRhino

22 posted on 10/28/2016 8:50:16 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Gunpowder green

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


23 posted on 10/28/2016 8:50:22 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

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.


24 posted on 10/28/2016 8:51:07 AM PDT by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: DiogenesLamp
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.

25 posted on 10/28/2016 8:51:47 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: mewzilla

I meant the Olympia not the stemware


26 posted on 10/28/2016 8:52:08 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

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.


27 posted on 10/28/2016 8:53:51 AM PDT by ColdOne ((poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~#MAGA)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
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.

28 posted on 10/28/2016 8:54:40 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: afraidfortherepublic
We should have let her keep the stuff she stole from the WH....it would have been cheaper.
29 posted on 10/28/2016 8:55:47 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

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


30 posted on 10/28/2016 8:56:05 AM PDT by ColdOne ((poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~#MAGA)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

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


31 posted on 10/28/2016 8:56:14 AM PDT by ETL (Trump-PENCE 2016!!)
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To: AndyJackson
You need some cleaner too
32 posted on 10/28/2016 8:56:41 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

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.


33 posted on 10/28/2016 8:57:50 AM PDT by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

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.


34 posted on 10/28/2016 8:57:57 AM PDT by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER; angcat
I hope she dies.
She probably will....right after the election.

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

35 posted on 10/28/2016 9:01:33 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (It's gonna be bloody.)
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To: angcat; ROCKLOBSTER
I hope she dies.

Jokin Joe

36 posted on 10/28/2016 9:01:55 AM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: LydiaLong
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.

37 posted on 10/28/2016 9:03:33 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (It's gonna be bloody.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

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


38 posted on 10/28/2016 9:03:38 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Did she take that with her when she left?


39 posted on 10/28/2016 9:05:16 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

It is probably in her house.


40 posted on 10/28/2016 9:05:29 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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