State Department approves $700G gardening contract in Belgium despite sequester

[JBond]

Really? We are docking portions of the navy because we can't "afford" fuel but this type of crap is approved?

Around the same time the State Department was warning the public about the painful pinch from sequester cuts, it was also signing off on a $700,000 gardening contract at the home of a U.S. ambassador in Belgium, federal documents show.

The March 11 contract for the U.S. Mission in Brussels includes $134,744 in the first year for grass cutting, weeding, trimming and other landscaping services at Truman Hall. It also calls for planting nearly 1,000 violas, begonias and tulips at NATO Ambassador Ivo Daalder’s home.

The total amount of the contract awarded to Brussels-based landscaping company Iris Greencare stretches to up to $704,198 over a four-year period.

“Maintenance and appearance of the grass, shrubbery, garden areas, trees and related landscape elements of the U.S. Post and properties are an important part of the representational responsibilities of the U.S. mission,” the contract states.


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[Jon88]

We spend money on the dumbest shit.

 

[JBond]

and yet the only answer the left has is more taxes. Currently the federal government siphons off a little over $2.5 trillion and Obama is demanding at least $3.5 trillion a year by 2016 with no reduction in our debt. Someone has to pay for those fancy vacations and tulip gardens.

 

[ThaBigP]

and yet the only answer the left has is more taxes. Currently the federal government siphons of a little over $2.5 trillion and Obama is demanding at least $3.5 trillion a year by 2016 with no reduction in our debt. Someone has to pay for those fancy vacations and tulip gardens.

And the soul concerts. Although Sam Moore is always nice to listen to. Even if I'm paying for it...