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EPA’s fondness for high-end furniture costs taxpayers $92 million
The Washington Times ^
| September 24, 2015
| Kellan Howell
Posted on 09/24/2015 5:57:29 PM PDT by jazusamo
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Give em metal desks and chairs from Walmart, that's more than they deserve.
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posted on
09/24/2015 5:57:30 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
To: jazusamo
Prison industries made the solid oak desks, chairs, filing cabinets and bookshelves I bought at a military surplus auction (DRMO) many years ago... refinished and a good new desk blotter from my local saddle shop has provided decades of service.......
Those lightbulbs from lighthouse for the blind ....not so much.
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posted on
09/24/2015 6:13:23 PM PDT
by
Squantos
( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
09/24/2015 6:20:58 PM PDT
by
McBuff
To: McBuff
LOL! That video is classic.
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posted on
09/24/2015 6:24:19 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
To: jazusamo; All
Thank you for referencing that article jazusamo. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.
Since the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate INTRAstate environmental issues, the EPA shouldnt be costing the taxpayers a single penny.
In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified the following about Congress limited power to appropriate taxes.
Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States. Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The only reason that the EPA exists imo, is because the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Senate failed to protect the states as the Founding States had intended for the Senate to do. In the case of the EPA, the Senate failed to kill bills that helped to create and fund the EPA.
The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators and the unconstitutional federal agencies like the EPA that they helped to establish along with them.
To: jazusamo
The Republicans are doing a great job with the power of the purse.
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posted on
09/24/2015 6:40:12 PM PDT
by
SharpRightTurn
(White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
To: jazusamo
Cost is no consideration or barrier.
The government will just extort more money from the few actual producers remaining in the USA.
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posted on
09/24/2015 6:43:38 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Proverbs 21:20 - The wise have stores of food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has)
To: Squantos
Prison industries made the solid oak desks, chairs, filing cabinets and bookshelves I bought at a military surplus auction (DRMO) many years ago... refinished and a good new desk blotter from my local saddle shop has provided decades of service.......Those desks that are built in Leavenworth will survive a nuclear blast. The only downside is you need a forklift to move one.
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posted on
09/24/2015 6:54:02 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: jazusamo
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posted on
09/24/2015 7:11:06 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Squantos
Those lightbulbs from lighthouse for the blind ....not so much.Ha!
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posted on
09/24/2015 7:13:06 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Obama practices "religion" in the mirror.)
To: jazusamo
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
http://www.usdebtclock.org
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. - list of grievances; Declaration
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posted on
09/24/2015 7:15:22 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: jazusamo
Spotted owls make great pillows.
To: sasquatch
Amen, pretty high quality down.
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posted on
09/24/2015 7:28:33 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
To: PGalt
“Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat”
It certainly is and our Marxist/socialist _resident has learned that well.
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posted on
09/24/2015 7:32:43 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
To: jazusamo
$6000 per employee for office furniture? That is flaunting wealth and it pisses me off all the more when I recall the long day I spent driving,loading and hauling HEAVY office furniture our boss bought at a firesale when an S&L went belly up in the early 90’s.
We outfitted 12 offices for less than $300/person.
To: jazusamo
Nothing is too good for our valued public servants. /s
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posted on
09/24/2015 8:22:42 PM PDT
by
super7man
(Oh why did I post that, now I'll never be able to run for Congress.)
To: Squantos
I used to make regular DRMO runs at Ft. Belvoir for computer gear back in the 90's. It's was like the military's flea market - you could find just about anything you wanted. If they didn't have it, their web site listed everything they had everywhere, if you were willing to make a road trip to haul it away.
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posted on
09/24/2015 9:16:38 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(The Avatar is back by popular request.)
To: Drew68
Agree .... heavy SOB’s indeed....:o) They have stood the test of time !!!
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posted on
09/24/2015 9:28:35 PM PDT
by
Squantos
( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: Viking2002
The trick to those DRMO sales were to dig through the trash items ..... gold mines in those pallets ! Found 2 brand new, in the box, never issued USMC 10X Unertl Sniper scopes in a pallet of old deuce gear the marines had turned in to salvage. We got the pallet evidently before the person who stashed the scopes in there could get there to buy it...:o)
Stay Safe !!
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posted on
09/24/2015 9:35:54 PM PDT
by
Squantos
( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: Viking2002
If you’re buying it used then someone bought it new.
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posted on
09/25/2015 3:06:05 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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