Posted on 02/28/2018 8:20:37 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
The Secretary of HUD has no role in foreign affairs and should not be receiving foreign visitors.
And I for one don't think he had any say in what was looked at or what was ordered.........
That's why they have STAFF......
Nobody has to feign knowledge that the left uses dirty tactics.
And that they do it to compensate for lack of real intelligence.
You mean the only “outrageous” expenses ever to make the news is when it’s Donald Trump or Ben Carson?
Allegedly?
If you can’t see through the dirty politics here, you’re not looking.
If you let the anti-Americans brainwash you with these tactics, it’s very sad.
For example, you can't think sensibly about housing unless you are also thinking about transportation infrastructure, economic development, access to and the quality of neighborhood schools, hospitals and other health care, retail, etc. Forget that and you end up warehousing and isolating poor people in places like Cabrini Green, and then wondering what went wrong.
Of course HUD has routine contact with urban policy people from around the world, in government, academia, think tanks, NGO's, and the private sector. By the same token, the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the Dept. of Transportation, USDA, Commerce, HHS and on down the list have routine foreign contacts. It's really the State Department that is mostly superfluous; I sometimes think that we should staff our embassies with detailees from line agencies with operational expertise and reduce State to a much smaller bureau for consular services.
That said, the issue of Ben Carson, or any other Cabinet Secretary, having a decent reception and dining area goes well beyond the mere nationality of the guests. Government does important work. It does the people's business. Yes, I agree that our government has gotten much too large and should be substantially trimmed. (Starting with entitlements, which is where the money is ....) I agree that the regulatory state needs to be curbed.
But still: we should build government buildings of quality and furnish them appropriately. We did this routinely in the 19th and early 20th centuries, before deliberately ugly modernism starting poisoning public architecture after WWII. (Public schools, for example, very often were built as stately, neighborhood landmarks, and were built to last. Today we too often build them to look like cookie cutter suburban office complexes, mainly because we've come to think that the most important design element of every school is the parking lot.) Major government buildings should be attractive. We should invest in good architecture. And I don't think a 50 year replacement schedule for furniture in heavily used reception areas is abusive.
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If you can’t see through the dirty politics here, you’re not looking.
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Dirty or not, broke-clock here
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If you let the anti-Americans brainwash you with these tactics, it’s very sad.
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Same could be said if one can’t take off the same-party-affiliation rose-tinted-glasses to see taxpayer monies (ie: time a/o actual $$) grossly mismanaged by govt (if said agency/dept should even EXIST) at all levels.
“anti-Americans brainwash” *SMH*
Sorry not the same as First Lady Nancy—who lived in White House and entertained and paid herself for the new China! I wish the media had done any watchdoging on the Obamas, but the fact that they did nothing does not make it OK to let Carson slide.
Why does a HUD Secretary even need a “dining room set” in their office, let alone one that costs $31,000—I mean how many people need to eat with him in his office?
Has he ever hear of his desk or a conference room table like the rest of us use?
I wish I even had a dining room set.
Does a card table qualify?
I worked in Washington, DC for 20 years as an engineer in construction. About half of the projects I worked on were for the Federal Government. Every single project meeting I attended during the planning stage of Federal projects were also attended by a team from GSA. They determined what our drawings would look like, and what everything else going into the project looked like too, including paint, floor coverings and furniture. GSA has hundreds of dinning room sets that cost much more than $31,000... GSA has millions of square footage of storage in and around DC. Remember the first Indiana Jones movie? GSA put the Ark of the Covenant away at the end. If there was ever a Deep State Agency in the government, it got it’s start in GSA.
Wow. Such much the American people don’t know anything about.
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