Unbelievable . . . the U.S. is broke and they continue on, business-as-usual. Q: Who the Hell Would Pay $22,000 For an Oil Portrait of Tom Vilsack? A: You Already Did! - Hit & Run : Reason.com
The cheaper option might have been not to have appointed the fat cat public servants in the first place...and why is a Democrat administration stumping up money to memorialise Republican, Bush appointees is a mystery to me. I would have thought that an intern taking happy snaps of the departmental honchos on an iphone would have been adequate for a rogues gallery....surely.
