but...but....what's wrong with $52,000 dollar curtains in an apartment suite that costs $58,000 a month?


WASHINGTON — The State Department spent $52,701 last year buying customized and mechanized curtains for the picture windows in Nikki R. Haley’s official residence as ambassador to the United Nations, just as the department was undergoing deep budget cuts and had frozen hiring.

The residence, in a new building on First Avenue, has spectacular views, and Ms. Haley is the first ambassador to live in it. For decades, her predecessors lived in the Waldorf Astoria hotel. But after the hotel was purchased by a Chinese insurance company with a murky ownership structure, the State Department decided in 2016 to find a new home for its top New York diplomat because of security concerns.

The government leased the apartment, just blocks from the delegation’s offices, with an option to buy, according to Patrick Kennedy, the top management official at the State Department during the Obama administration. The full-floor penthouse, with handsome hardwood floors covering large open spaces stretching nearly 6,000 square feet, was listed at $58,000 a month.

While ambassadors around the world are given residences, there are only two such residences in the United States — one for Ms. Haley and the other for her deputy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/us/politics/nikki-haley-curtains.html?action=click&module=Ribbon&pgtype=Article

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Do you have a point?

why don't you learn to read?  the point is as obvious as the one on top of your head- dickheaded Trump promised to drain the swamp- which meant to stop excessive spending by government bigwigs on trips, private phone booths, motorcades all over town, extravagant expenditures on taxpayer money to greedy pigs at the executive level of government...and his administration is the worst in history at this extravagant lifestyle choices funded by taxpayers, including trump himself with his constant taxpayer funded trips to his own resorts where he gets a cut of the taxpayer funded pie!!

get it, stupid?

Are you claiming there were no such expenses under Obama?

not like that, stupid.  this is the most corrupt swampy administration in history, ass.  that dickheaded EPA guy already had to resign for running up such a huge tab, the dickheaded Secretary of the Interior Zinke dude has swamped it up just about as bad, flaky ben carson and his wife bought this incredibly expensive DINING TABLE (???) for his office (why a dining table in your work office as HUD Secretary?) then lied about knowing about it, then said it was his wife's fault!!  these are the kind of chickenshit, lying swamp creatures who emulate chickenshit, lying swamp creature Trump, dumbass.

and all you got is the standard "but what about nothing at all similar about Obama?" defense. 

Well that is a lie!

Have you forgotten all the Obama scandals?

Why would anyone need curtains that cost that much?    All the curtains in my house didn’t cost near that much.

Obama approved the remodel so why complain.

Obama didn't know that Dijon cost almost twice as much as the regular mustard.

I would say Obama knows the difference he approved the remodel so jump on his ass about it.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/14/nikki-haley-draws-shade-over-53g-curtains-okd-by-obama-administration.html
People should get their story straight before they post poo they don't know about.

the curtains were installed during march through august of 2017.  after obama left.  if they were going to drain the swamp, they had 3 to 6 months to get cheaper curtains.  get it?

The New York Times has reported that the curtains were installed from March to August of 2017, with the curtains themselves costing $29,000 and the motors and hardware required to open and close them automatically costing another $22,801.

Oscar, says we should have canceled the order despite already having paid!

Just what would that have accomplished?

if you read the story, if you could read, these curtains were installed after huge cuts to the state department...why wasn't a 53 grand set of curtains cut, too?

DvD is a product of waste and corruption...

True but the components were custom and could not be used anywhere else meaning they were fully paid for prior to installation!

I have curtains like that in my boathouse.

george soros' fingerprints are all over those curtains.  he forced nikki to accept them OR ELSE!!


what part of your ass did you pull that from, liar? they were installed from March to August of 2017...that means they were made slightly before that time or they would have been installed earlier.  are you trying to show how fucking senseless you are? if so, kudos!!

The servants' quarters have the manual version... I wouldn't want them to feel entitled.

What did she get to decorate the room for her man/whore?

He got something nice, right?

Or did she just get him a new string bikini?

Oscar thinks custom components magically appear on day of install!

How very silly of him!

A damn pickup cost more than 52,000 dollars

I agree with hoosier.  Government is too big.

you can drive a pickup, stupid.  what the fuck do curtains do that is worth 53 grand, you moron?  do you even begin to see how wasteful that is..AND IT IS TAX PAYER DOUGH...dumbass. 

The one draining the swamp is Mueller. Took down another swamp creature just today! (http://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/Smileys/classic/grin.gif)

The decision to buy lavish curtains was made during the Obama administration, dumbarse.  NYT choked on its own fake again.  No problem, no one will read its correction on page 100.

I would imagine when you order $52,000.00 worth of curtains, there is a contract involved.

UPDATE: The Times was forced to backtrack on its indefensible story and added this editor’s note, but only after the fake news had been up for hours:
Editors’ Note: September 14, 2018
An earlier version of this article and headline created an unfair impression about who was responsible for the purchase in question. While Nikki R. Haley is the current ambassador to the United Nations, the decision on leasing the ambassador’s residence and purchasing the curtains was made during the Obama administration, according to current and former officials. The article should not have focused on Ms. Haley, nor should a picture of her have been used. The article and headline have now been edited to reflect those concerns, and the picture has been removed.

Fake news NYT continues to prove itself so!