Maybe the Pentagon’s legendary $600 toilet seat was a bargain.
The personal bathroom used by the secretary of the Interior is so swanky that its renovation cost $222,000. No detail was overlooked: It has a $3,500 sub-zero refrigerator (hey, if you’re going to have a fridge in the bathroom, it might as well be a good one) and a $689 faucet. At least the “vintage tissue holder” was cheap: just $65 bucks.
The renovation was done in 2007 under President George W. Bush’s Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, but is only now coming to light, thanks to the dogged reporting by ABC News Atlanta affiliate WSB-TV, which first filed a Freedom of Information Act request on the renovation four years ago.
Read More at ABC News . By Jonathan Karl.
Image Credit: General Services Administration
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HOLY CRAP! That is more than my house and land is worth now on todays market due to this type of socialist government. UNACCEPTABLE!!!
The Bureaucrats are all full of SHI* – it is not their money so who cars and they had excess budget money at year end . . so it must be spent or next year the Congress will cut your budget.
visit here to see how we the people can end this uncontrolled spending and usurping of the Constitution.
http://fundamentalrefounding.ning.com/forum/categories/article-v-state-amendment-project-to-restore-liberty/listForCategory
Yes this was outlandish and should not have been done however it should last for a while as it is real property improvements. To put this into perspective isn’t this less than an Obama vacation one way flight on Air Force One to Hawaii???
That $233,000 would only pay for Obama’s dog to go to Hawaii. The total for the whole crew was about $7,000,000.00 (Yes! 7 million dollars).
You are correct that it’s outlandish, but that’s how this government runs.
Sorry,but my bathrooms look much,much,much better that that at a very tiny,tiny fraction of the price!
Those creeps live just like the crooked governments in 3rd world countries!
They’re nothing but disgusting mammoth leeches that suck every penny of our hard earned taxes down the drain!
They all should be forced to live on the street like so many Americans do now and maybe they will think twice about spending that obscene amount of money on a place to pee!
Who needs a refrigerator in the bathroom??? GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!
What else are they buying or spending on that we don’t know ? I do not trust anyone in the government !!!! I believe a civilian should be in the white house watching our money !!! WE should put them on a budget !!!
And yet we are told that no spending can possibly be cut. We must raise taxes!
I’d be interested to know who AUTHORIZED this !!! They should be the one to pay for it out of their pocket. While the President speaks of children STARVING… and every body’s out of WORK… and he ALLOWS this kind of crap…. both of them are insane and should be committed to a Hospital using Obamacare insurance… !!!!! Wonder then if they will appreciate what they’re trying to shove off on us peons of this country.