They didn’t really pay that much for the toilet seats. They just used the invoice to launder the embezzlement.
Hell, I’d make them for $9,500. Some genius GS-11 procurement puke needs to be executed.
$14.99 at Home Depot. Basic white
That is how they pay for area 51 research. At least according to INDEPENDENCE DAY.
I want to see the toilet seat. Does it resemble the likeness of Obama? Or was it custom made to fit a Clinton A$$?
The linked artile has a link to the original article that states the part is being 3D printed.
I rememberfunnels on C 119’s.
The Question on everyone’s mind is: How much do they pay for toilet paper
The wind tunnel testing alone probably runs $3-5K.
The ones at Home Depot don’t have rocket packs and parachutes in them. That’s gonna cost ya.
They have come a long way since the $600 hammer.
To all the dimwits on this thread or who write these idiotic stories - the mold is the cost. Stainless steel plastic or ceramic molds can be 100k or much more depending on size and complexity.
Plastic parts are cheap because the make millions of parts with a single mold. But if you only need a few, each part will cost thousands.
Toilet seats aside, regarding otherwise constitutionally justified government spending, I understand that no government department wants to spend less than what was allocated to it in a given year and risk a budget cut the following year.
In other words, bureaucrats probably paid more than what toilet seats were worth out of desperation to protect annual budget.
In other words, patriots need to elect a new, Trump-supporting, “power of the purse” (1.7.1) House of Representatives in midterm elections to better manage / protect taxpayer dollars.
Insights welcome.
Sounds about right for Barbra Streisand.
Single use, sterilized, etc.
Sprinkled with rose pedals.
Full mil spec nuclear hardened toilet seats with heads up display and vitals monitoring sensors, no doubt.
It’s probably one of the ways they fund black projects
This is pure reporting malpractice. No one pays $10,000 for a “toilet seat.” The item is a small bulkhead adjacent to the crapper. During a lot of 14-hour flights, someone needs to use the can. Everyone needs the pisser. In the P-3 we had a stand-up pisser and a toilet bucket. Not very glamorous. I believe the P-8 has the same.
Tough to take this seriously when this nonsense is spouted. The national GDP is $17T. The Pentagon is not worth half of our national output.
I imagine some of that money went to intelligence community black ops.