Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s billionaire education secretary, faced backlash on Wednesday over her plans to spend more than $43,000 of taxpayer money on new furniture for her government office as she works to illegally dismantle the department she leads, harming students across the country.
Why do you need new furniture for the office you’re destroying. Also as a millionaire/billionaire just buy the shit yourself to “look good” for the press.
Why are they all so scummy. Even Trump and Elon can’t seem to out their hand in their pocket for a small rounding error of money to build half the shit he wants, has to get outside donors and tax payer money to do it.
Trump is in it this time to destroy the country that impeached him twice and made him kill is best friend and business associate to keep things quiet. He built the worlds biggest blackmail network and he loved underage pussy and now those things are gone, so he’s out to destroy the country that ruined it all for him to show history that he’s more big and powerful than any stupid America which was nothing more than a worthless house of cards, so much so that he took it down and made it a mess. Can you believe it folks? I mean it’s honestly pathetic, if you look around. All these people, afraid they’re going to lose their country, cheering for the guy doing it. Because, if he can’t have the America he wants, why should you? Why should anyone have America if it’s just going to do that to people who become powerful? What’s the point of it if everyone is subject to the same laws? That’s not why America was formed, folks.
But y’all know how much office furniture costs? $43k is not that much. I mean what she has done to the Education Department - that’s the real crime.
It’s the combination of both that makes it extra egregious.
Honestly, I don’t want to walk into a government building and have it look extravagant in any way. It immediately indicates misallocation of funds and bad priorities.
Show me a functional, but boring, office. Use that money for the thing you were appointed to do you fucking psychopaths.
But it’s an existing office. She could use the old chair and desk while she’s destroying children 's futures
But then it wouldn’t look like a cheesecake factory owned by Sadam Hussein
that’s like 1.3 teachers’ annual salary in arizona
Well that is just horrendous
Yeah that’s what, like two Herman Miller chairs and maybe an ergo desk for her secretary? It’s ridiculous how expensive office furniture (MUCH OF WHICH IS MADE WITH PRISON SLAVE LABOR, BTW) is.
Was curious about this so I looked up a little more details, link for anyone else who wants to know a little more. Its not a super in depth article, but its something
https://www.thrillist.com/gear/products-made-by-prisoners-clothing-furniture-electronics
Oh, thank you, I forget this one isn’t common knowledge.
Here’s an example of one of these charming companies:
Correctional Industries offers a full range of seating, tables, office and desk systems, files and storage, and office accessories to furnish anything from your reception area to your executive offices.
https://www.washingtonci.com/furniture.html
The “Eligible Customers” page is a real hoot, highly recommend. The summary is that if you’ve ever touched furniture in any government, university or (many) non-profits in Oregon or Washington (including tribal government guys we should really uh… think about this for a second), or really any surplused office furniture on the west coast, it was almost undoubtedly made with prison labor.
Washington State Correctional Industries offers eligible customers quick and easy access to quality products and services through various authorities provided under the Revised Code of Washington. The following customers are eligible to purchase from Correctional Industries.
- Washington State agencies and political subdivisions of Washington State and Oregon State
- Government agencies and political subdivisions (federal, states, cities, counties, municipalities)
- Certified Not-for-profit organizations
- Participating institutions of higher education (universities, community and technical colleges)
- Public Primary and Secondary Schools
- Tribal/Indian Nation
- Private contractors, when supplying any of the above entities
Now to be totally fair they have greatly improved things in the last five years - it’s now not literal slave labor in that people are given a choice (and I will begrudgingly admit it appears to be a genuine choice) of whether to participate and it goes towards both a prisoner’s commissary and points off their sentence/towards parole, but fucking still.
Office furniture is surprisingly expensive and takes a lot more planning than you would expect.
So is Education
thank you for reminding me i need to finish building my custom cupboards
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this is all in service of re-segregation and using tax money for religious grooming. including white supremacist religions.
this is already having effects. black students in liberal cities are getting worse education opportunities than their white peers.
i’d say a significant reason that about half of my wife’s classmates in her teaching credential program went into it to attempt to fix that disparity. you can only do so much without funding, but without creative people guiding the process it doesn’t matter how much money you throw at the problems in education.
teachers aren’t the problem.
if teachers had more power, we’d have little problems and lots of little inequities, but much better outcomes for almost everyone than we’re getting right now.
i think our biggest problem is administrators thinking up “creative” (see: ineffective) implementations of poorly drafted laws, which results in them not supporting their staff, which results in students getting neither the education nor the services they need to succeed.
that may just be the school my wife’s at tho. hard to see the forest for the trees when you’re really interested in this one specific tree.
When did the US education system desegregate? School districts, school boards… these are all vehicles for continued segregation and serve no other purpose.
Remember to vote
Basic bitch gussying up the place before evictions
