We all enjoy decorating our homes with flowers – and some ambassadors make no exception!
The residence of the U.S. ambassador to NATO in Brussels, Belgium, is decorated with ‘960 violets, 960 tulips, 960 begonias, 72 Japanese evergreen shrubs, 504 ivy geraniums, 168 hybrid heath evergreen shrubs, 204 American wintergreens, and 60 English ivy shrubs.’
Cost to taxpayers: $704,000
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3 thoughts on “7 Stupid Things the Government Wasted Your Tax Money on”
This is insane? That money could be used to help our starving, homeless Americans. What a waste of money, & Americans are struggling to put their kids through college. They could use this $$$ to help kids get educated!
The fact that our government wastes our money very dramatically is very well known and it’s an OLD story. The question Americans have is …. why does this outrage continue? It is sickening! Not that we waste money but that we know it and we continue the waste year after year.
Yes, the government did spend money on things that turned out not to be good investments. So let’s add up the whole lot of them, multiply it by perhaps a thousand, and you don’t even begin to pay for one F-35 airplane that the armed forces don’t even want.
As for the solar panels, adding an anti-reflection coating to the cover glass would not only eliminate most of the offending reflection but would improve the efficiency by about 5%.