Comments about ‘Furniture for legislators: $20,000 per office’

Looks like the media got wind of the "remodel" and legislators are trying to do a "fast dance" to cover their poor spending choices. And I thought the only "pork" we had to worry about came from the Feds!

I totally furnished a 1200 sq. ft. apt for $10,000 and didn't buy junk. Who do they think they are? These aristocrats give themselves lifetime health insurance, take housing and per diem payments w/o an actual need, and then cut a few pennies so we gullible fools think they really sacrificed. Then we keep re-electing them...boy are we stupid!!!

And they only use these offices (full-time - they can use them otherwise but full-time "officially") 45 days a year. I guess the furniture should last for awhile.

Bob, Get invited to Dave Clark's office. You will see that he lives in extreme luxury, courteous of former speaker Greg Curtis's largesse with public funds. The carpet alone must have cost $20,000. Sink into the custom leather chairs. Enron executives did not spend as much as Greg Curtis. You really missed the mark and under reported on this one.

$20,000 each? Flat sceen TVs? And our legislators have the nerve to tell Meals on Wheels recipients just to suck it up?

The legislators should be given credit for the pay cuts; and freeze them till there is a surplus.

On a much larger scale the State should be responsible enough to mandate a balanced budget every year. Leave the "rainy day fund" alone. What happened with the budget surpluses; haven't we learned from the story of Joseph in Egypt?

Recommendations:

1. Take roads back off the table except for a repair fund. I live in Utah county and we can live with it for a few more years. Billions in savings.
2. Freeze the state building plans; completely. They can also make do. Probably at least another billion.
3. Cut the beauacracy: Cut all non-essential staff. Of course everyone feels their people are essencial but the public is feeling the pinch of unemployment.
4. Eliminate perks: the motor pool; get reimbursed for driving your own car. Non-essential housing and meals; find out how owners of small business work.

The point is that our government should be as responsible and prudent as the public they "serve" are. We, the people, have to have a balanced budget and do what it takes to live on what we have.

Probably not. Not the best quality. You do not get what you pay for. I own some UCI office furniture......

Yet I can't even get enough desks for my classroom of 35 kids....