Honestly, several of those expenditures seem reasonable. I would especially support high quality (which usually means more costly) furnishings, including art, for government offices abroad and open to the foreign public. So many cultures value opulence and associate it with power and success, so it would be important for many of our foreign embassies to be well appointed.
I think the people in DC, who are not working for their constituents, have forgotten they are there supposedly WORKING FOR WE, THE PEOPLE. It is preposterous the way they spend our money! I'd say that at least 80% of the American people would love to get their salaries and yet they have the audacity to steal more from us. They want to monitor our bank accounts because someone may have made $400 at a garage sale and not pay the IRS its FAIR ? share all the while they are stealing millions more from the taxpayers. If their salaries were cut in half they'd still be paid more than they're worth! It feels like the Biblical story of Abraham and Lot when Abraham was pleading with the Angel of the Lord to save the city of Sodom if there were to be found ten good men there. It would be difficult to find that many in DC and the rest of the country is who is being destroyed!
While my taxes are paying for the fat fannies to sit (on the occasion) we are sitting on plastic 8.00 outdoor chairs at our small kitchen table and to watch TV. WE WANT A REFUND NOW. IT IS OUR MONEY AND WE WANT IT NOW! Thank you for the information We may need anger management help.
Check the buyers from each agency and the agency who approved the vendors. I bet there is a connection with the bureaucracy and the vendors.
It is probably posted on the GSA website. I saw that when I worked for the federal government and called out the office manger who wanted to replace good furniture with a “new look.” What happened to him? He was promoted to work more closely with GSA.
Government offices once filled their offices with furniture made by prisoners in federal prisons. Until the monetary “benefits” to the government buyers started.
I worked at a charter school that was sponsored by the local county office of education. Year after year, my school was relegated to three portables located behind the county building. They were drafty, full of mold, and falling apart. And yet, year after year, I watched the county office of education superintendent spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on renovating and beautifying the building she worked in. Perfect example of how bureaucrats are destroying America.
It would seem that the Federal Government and (state governments), have subscribed to helping the "Starving Artists" club and the administration has tossed millions of dollars into a pot so that an (unprofessional), can run out and write huge checks to anyone for their art work, as if that "artist" couldn't make a living except they grab up the checks that Tax Payers, have dropped off in the IRS mailboxes. I love art, but I have seen some of the [ugly] and obseen statues of art in public places. (The price tags on the artworks, would make George Soros blush.)
Did CB Richard Ellis become the GSA's largest contractor when Richard Blum was its chairman? Of course, Mr. Blum is best known as the husband of Senator Diane Feinstein.
Who had the responsibility to make these ridiculous purchases? Their supervisors should be held accountable. Their should be sending limits in place with common sense at the guideline.
Tax payers are furnishing great bank accounts for the "Starving Artists Guilds". We need to stop having to pay for art works that, sometimes look, like an art work, furnished by a Fifth grader.
When I worked for County government, these things were very much controlled through inventories and physical conditions of items. This is how it should be when our federal tax dollars are being spent . Time to make changes!!!
It's such fun when you have free use of OPM! If they had to write a check from their own bank account, you can be sure everything would only be essential and functional. (Same thing with war. If they, or theirs, had to go to the front line before anyone else, things would be entirely different.) My parents taught me to save my own money to buy the things I wanted. The lesson was that I would value those things more when they came from the fruit of my own labor, and that is true. Government employees have no regard, or possibly even realization, of the real owners of all this pomp and fluff - and would likely refuse a taxpayer slave a seat on one of those Ethan Allen chairs. Champagne taste with (not even) a beer pocketbook - it's all for show; big office suites full of expensive furnishings, full of empty promises. I am so ready for the next shoe to fall. Living in a land of lies is a never-ending nightmare. House of cards made of glass.
Reform long overdue. Transparency is a key as you reported. Hopefully we will see reform as excess gets removed.
Who owns the buildings?
Honestly, several of those expenditures seem reasonable. I would especially support high quality (which usually means more costly) furnishings, including art, for government offices abroad and open to the foreign public. So many cultures value opulence and associate it with power and success, so it would be important for many of our foreign embassies to be well appointed.
I think the people in DC, who are not working for their constituents, have forgotten they are there supposedly WORKING FOR WE, THE PEOPLE. It is preposterous the way they spend our money! I'd say that at least 80% of the American people would love to get their salaries and yet they have the audacity to steal more from us. They want to monitor our bank accounts because someone may have made $400 at a garage sale and not pay the IRS its FAIR ? share all the while they are stealing millions more from the taxpayers. If their salaries were cut in half they'd still be paid more than they're worth! It feels like the Biblical story of Abraham and Lot when Abraham was pleading with the Angel of the Lord to save the city of Sodom if there were to be found ten good men there. It would be difficult to find that many in DC and the rest of the country is who is being destroyed!
While my taxes are paying for the fat fannies to sit (on the occasion) we are sitting on plastic 8.00 outdoor chairs at our small kitchen table and to watch TV. WE WANT A REFUND NOW. IT IS OUR MONEY AND WE WANT IT NOW! Thank you for the information We may need anger management help.
Check the buyers from each agency and the agency who approved the vendors. I bet there is a connection with the bureaucracy and the vendors.
It is probably posted on the GSA website. I saw that when I worked for the federal government and called out the office manger who wanted to replace good furniture with a “new look.” What happened to him? He was promoted to work more closely with GSA.
Government offices once filled their offices with furniture made by prisoners in federal prisons. Until the monetary “benefits” to the government buyers started.
I worked at a charter school that was sponsored by the local county office of education. Year after year, my school was relegated to three portables located behind the county building. They were drafty, full of mold, and falling apart. And yet, year after year, I watched the county office of education superintendent spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on renovating and beautifying the building she worked in. Perfect example of how bureaucrats are destroying America.
It would seem that the Federal Government and (state governments), have subscribed to helping the "Starving Artists" club and the administration has tossed millions of dollars into a pot so that an (unprofessional), can run out and write huge checks to anyone for their art work, as if that "artist" couldn't make a living except they grab up the checks that Tax Payers, have dropped off in the IRS mailboxes. I love art, but I have seen some of the [ugly] and obseen statues of art in public places. (The price tags on the artworks, would make George Soros blush.)
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Imagines stripping fed furnishings down to Walmart Bentonville style of the Sam Walton days. 😎
WOW! Furniture, if taken care of properly, can last a lifetime - someone needs to cut agency budgets down a bit more! When did frugality die y’all?
Did CB Richard Ellis become the GSA's largest contractor when Richard Blum was its chairman? Of course, Mr. Blum is best known as the husband of Senator Diane Feinstein.
Who had the responsibility to make these ridiculous purchases? Their supervisors should be held accountable. Their should be sending limits in place with common sense at the guideline.
Tax payers are furnishing great bank accounts for the "Starving Artists Guilds". We need to stop having to pay for art works that, sometimes look, like an art work, furnished by a Fifth grader.
When I worked for County government, these things were very much controlled through inventories and physical conditions of items. This is how it should be when our federal tax dollars are being spent . Time to make changes!!!
Common sense is truly extinct!
No,common sense is still quite alive in most of America. Frugality tends to disappear when $$$ signs are beyond most humans’ imagination.
It's such fun when you have free use of OPM! If they had to write a check from their own bank account, you can be sure everything would only be essential and functional. (Same thing with war. If they, or theirs, had to go to the front line before anyone else, things would be entirely different.) My parents taught me to save my own money to buy the things I wanted. The lesson was that I would value those things more when they came from the fruit of my own labor, and that is true. Government employees have no regard, or possibly even realization, of the real owners of all this pomp and fluff - and would likely refuse a taxpayer slave a seat on one of those Ethan Allen chairs. Champagne taste with (not even) a beer pocketbook - it's all for show; big office suites full of expensive furnishings, full of empty promises. I am so ready for the next shoe to fall. Living in a land of lies is a never-ending nightmare. House of cards made of glass.
Wonder what they did with the "old stuff" they had to get rid of? Surplus sale or just give it away?