Posted on 02/28/2018 8:20:37 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
Carson is one of the very few in politics who needs to stay there, because he’s an antipolitician.
This is why the swamp is trying to fool you into believing lies about him.
“Spending $31k of taxpayers’ money on a private dining room table is ridiculous”
Would be nice to hear from Carson on this.\
Is the dining set for his home or does he have a private dining room at work.
Nope. MAGA is about draining the normal swamp and restoring accountability to the elite, like exposing wasteful spending. It’s hard to accomplish when your henchmen are doing that very thing.
Prove it.
According to reports, the set this new one replaced was installed in 1967. Considering that Carson heads a freaking federal government cabinet, I’d say the amount is no big deal. And although I’m a misery sort by nature and against any level of government over-spending on anything, I think that all cabinet heads should be flying on government owned or chartered planes instead of commercial as a matter or security. I would cast a suspicious eye at anyone criticizing this as an enemy of the administration. On the same level as the AR-15 protesters. Soros minions.
I know enough not to believe the rabid media whose motivation is impeachment and not truth. Their are very few facts in the reporting, mostly insinuation, and no context as to how it compares to past administrations. It’s not like they gave 2.2 billion dollars to solar companies that go bankrupt a month later.
I wonder if it is really a CONFERENCE room, not a dining room?
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$31,000 for a 12 or 16 place setting of good quality including chairs, delivery and setup is not outrageous.
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The (R)N(C) knee-pad brigade bobs again! Yes, it IS outrageous. $31K+ so, unless YOU’D like to write the check?
Did the prior set disintegrate? There is not ONE reason to waste the taxpayer’s $$, regardless of the party blowing the $$.
What was done to the prior ensemble that necessitated a FULL replacement? Did the warranty expire & the mahogany warping? What the fabric couldn’t be re-upholstered from JoAnn’s??
Maybe they should shut down the ivory towers and gilded palaces. Put ‘em up in a few ‘office’d out’ warehouses and take the guests out to Waffle House instead....maybe a Red Lobster.
$120T+ in unfunded liabilities and everyone starts talking like $31K isn’t $$$. Ask those it was TAKEN FROM.
The article says that the furniture replaced had been there since 1967. That made it 50 years old. Somehow that was not important enough to be in an early paragraph. The dishonest media strikes again
Perhaps it was money well-spent? We may have never seen her without...
The timeline in the article is a bit hinky.
The existing furniture had been there since 1967. They tried to fix it.
It was ordered December 21 when?
The purchase was at the behest of the “Acting HUD Secretary Craig Clemmensen”?
Of course Uncle Tom, er Dr. Carson would be in their sights. YAWN.
Bottom line, HUD should have shopped at Gallery Furniture. I’m sure Mattress Mack would have helped them out.
The article says it’s for a private dining room at his office.
Wrong.
It’s about driving the final nail into Alinsky’s coffin.
Alinsky, who along with his book dedicatee and Machiavelli never understood that the quicksand of lying for power leaves no way out.
To try to use Alinksy’s silly little rules to make Carson look bad is just more of the same.
Did it get Hillary elected?
You sound like a criminal who’s been caught. That’s exactly the line they use.
You sound as if you've never been in a federal office building, civilian or military. Most of them look like cr*p. The fedgov is the land of deferred maintenance, antiquated systems, and battered furniture that's been handed down since Noah. And that's ok. But I don't object to a few nice facilities suitable for hosting high ranking guests, especially foreign visitors, and for holding formal events. A presentable suite in which cabinet secretaries can host a nice event is fine. After 50 years, the furniture was probably long overdue for replacement.
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You sound as if you’ve never been in a federal office building, civilian or military. Most of them look like cr*p.
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Does Ben Carson’s office (or whatever THIS one was) utilized like your local playground?
Sorry, they SHOULD be using the SCHIFF out of what they got, ‘til it turns to dust.
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The fedgov is the land of deferred maintenance, antiquated systems, and battered furniture that’s been handed down since Noah. And that’s ok.
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As they should. It’s OUR $$$.
Govt can’t even find the deeds to the property it ‘has’ (whole diff. topic for another day)...so let’s give ‘em new/shiny cause they F* up the last 20x+. Yeah, *that’s* smart.
Hey, maybe the OTHER agencies/dept have a set THEY never used? Naw, not even a thought they would allow.
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But I don’t object to a few nice facilities suitable for hosting high ranking guests, especially foreign visitors, and for holding formal events. A presentable suite in which cabinet secretaries can host a nice event is fine. After 50 years, the furniture was probably long overdue for replacement.
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Plenty of hotels/etc. *already* with these amenities. Won’t cost *US* near the amount of the facilities/utilities/furnishing/upkeep.
Worse case? How ‘bout refurb? Re-cover the seat(s), resurface the table. Hell, I bet you’d have biz LINED up to do on the (relatively) cheap to showcase.
‘Cuz we all know, this isn’t Ikea furniture we’re talking about. Best hardwoods, SOLID pieces.
No, govt will be allowed to back the old, and I still haven’t SEEN it, or read how ‘old’ old was, into some warehouse and it’ll get ‘lose in the system’
Lather, rinse, repeat. Time after time, living the high-life, pissing away the taxpayer $$.
And you personify the clueless feigning knowledge.
He’s not a medieval Lord. Everyone else in DC manages to have lunch every day without a luxury dining room - if he can’t manage that then he is incompetent in the extreme. This expense, while minor in the big picture, is still an outrageous abuse of the Treasury.
No benefit came to the citizen or taxpayer in exchange for this private benefit extended to Carson.
This is an example of public corruption, for those who fail to recognize clear signs of it.
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