RandomGuy
03-01-2018, 11:16 AM
What a fucking hypocritical tool, who broke the law wasting taxpayer money.
Whoopsies
Dude's wife starts redecorating the office, then demotes the accounting person who told them they were limited to $5000 unless they went to Congress for the fund, because of a law that Congress passed to prevent government waste.
He then goes on to spend $165000 on new lounge furniture. That is in addition to the $31,000 he spend on desks and chairs for an "office dining set".
Did I mention he was breaking the law?
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"$31,561. Thirty-one-thousand-five-hundred-and-sixty-one dollars. It is a table and some chairs, funded by taxpayers — 51% of whom make less than that in an entire year."
While Carson believes that America’s taxpayers ought to give him $196,000 to decorate his “suite,” he believes firmly that the poor should be as uncomfortable as humanly possible. You know, to motivate them.
He expressed this belief last May in an interview with the New York Times:
As he toured facilities for the poor in Ohio last week, Mr. Carson, the neurosurgeon-turned-housing secretary, joked that a relatively well-appointed apartment complex for veterans lacked “only pool tables.” He inquired at one stop whether animals were allowed. At yet another, he nodded, plainly happy, as officials explained how they had stacked dozens of bunk beds inside a homeless shelter and purposefully did not provide televisions.
Compassion, Mr. Carson explained in an interview, means not giving people “a comfortable setting that would make somebody want to say: ‘I’ll just stay here. They will take care of me.’”
Ben Carson, by the way, has a net worth of $26 million. As a person who is worth 26 million dollars, he believes American taxpayers should give him $196,000 to redecorate his suite because chairs that cost less than $5,000 are for peasants, but that homeless veterans don’t deserve TV. So … huh!
The idea that making sure poor people are miserable will help to “motivate” them somehow is easily contradicted by the fact that, statistically, those who are born poor stay poor and those who are born rich stay rich. It is contradicted by the mere existence of homeless people. It is contradicted by everything except what people like Ben Carson want to believe is true because it helps soothe whatever consciences they have left.
Read more at https://wonkette.com/630595/ben-carson-spends-165000-on-lounge-furniture-while-making-sure-poor-arent-too-cozy#i1ItD48tYcLx5Z1b.99
Whoopsies
Dude's wife starts redecorating the office, then demotes the accounting person who told them they were limited to $5000 unless they went to Congress for the fund, because of a law that Congress passed to prevent government waste.
He then goes on to spend $165000 on new lounge furniture. That is in addition to the $31,000 he spend on desks and chairs for an "office dining set".
Did I mention he was breaking the law?
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"$31,561. Thirty-one-thousand-five-hundred-and-sixty-one dollars. It is a table and some chairs, funded by taxpayers — 51% of whom make less than that in an entire year."
While Carson believes that America’s taxpayers ought to give him $196,000 to decorate his “suite,” he believes firmly that the poor should be as uncomfortable as humanly possible. You know, to motivate them.
He expressed this belief last May in an interview with the New York Times:
As he toured facilities for the poor in Ohio last week, Mr. Carson, the neurosurgeon-turned-housing secretary, joked that a relatively well-appointed apartment complex for veterans lacked “only pool tables.” He inquired at one stop whether animals were allowed. At yet another, he nodded, plainly happy, as officials explained how they had stacked dozens of bunk beds inside a homeless shelter and purposefully did not provide televisions.
Compassion, Mr. Carson explained in an interview, means not giving people “a comfortable setting that would make somebody want to say: ‘I’ll just stay here. They will take care of me.’”
Ben Carson, by the way, has a net worth of $26 million. As a person who is worth 26 million dollars, he believes American taxpayers should give him $196,000 to redecorate his suite because chairs that cost less than $5,000 are for peasants, but that homeless veterans don’t deserve TV. So … huh!
The idea that making sure poor people are miserable will help to “motivate” them somehow is easily contradicted by the fact that, statistically, those who are born poor stay poor and those who are born rich stay rich. It is contradicted by the mere existence of homeless people. It is contradicted by everything except what people like Ben Carson want to believe is true because it helps soothe whatever consciences they have left.
Read more at https://wonkette.com/630595/ben-carson-spends-165000-on-lounge-furniture-while-making-sure-poor-arent-too-cozy#i1ItD48tYcLx5Z1b.99