{"id":4902,"date":"2010-04-22T11:01:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2010-04-22T12:01:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:01:19","slug":"pelosi%e2%80%99s-big-news-taxpayers-just-spent-140000-on-new-light-fixtures-and-window-shades-for-the-house-cafeteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4902\/pelosi%e2%80%99s-big-news-taxpayers-just-spent-140000-on-new-light-fixtures-and-window-shades-for-the-house-cafeteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi\u2019s Big News: Taxpayers Just Spent $140,000 on New Light Fixtures and Window Shades for the House Cafeteria"},"content":{"rendered":"

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had some big news to announce yesterday.\u00a0 So in typical Washington fashion, she did what any politician would do.\u00a0 Pelosi called a press conference.\u00a0 Her big news?\u00a0 With the Capitol Hill press corps huddled before her, the Speaker announced<\/a> that she had spent $140,000 in taxpayer money on new “energy efficient” light fixtures and window shades for the House cafeteria.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not all.\u00a0 The fancy new light fixtures and window shades, which automatically raise and lower based on the amount of sunlight that shines through, were a bargain, according to Pelosi and Stephen Ayers, the Architect of the Capitol.\u00a0 Indeed, Ayers bragged:<\/p>\n

I think this fixture was $800 a year ago, and it\u2019s now just over $300, so in one year that\u2019s a pretty significant savings \u2013 which allows us to begin using this kind of equipment and technology, because we\u2019re able to get a good return on investment.\u00a0 At $800 a fixture we can\u2019t get a good return on investment, but when it gets down to $300 \u2013 and I\u2019m sure it will go even lower \u2013 we\u2019re able to get a good return on investment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And just how “good” will that “return on investment” be?\u00a0 So “good” that Ayers and Pelosi believe that, based on estimates of what will be saved in energy costs, it will only take, well, a mere decade<\/em> for the light fixtures and window shades to pay for themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Okay, okay.\u00a0\u00a0 What\u2019s $140,000 in the grand scheme of things?\u00a0 Especially when you consider the federal deficit will exceed $1.5 trillion this year alone.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not the point.<\/p>\n

At a time when millions of Americans are out of work, and millions more are taking to the streets to protest excessive government spending, including the Speaker\u2019s push to cripple the U.S. economy with a \u201cclimate change\u201d bill complete with a job-killing Cap-and-Trade scheme, it\u2019s the symbolism of it all.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re sure there are many Americans who would love to replace the light fixtures and window treatments in their homes.\u00a0 But times are tough.\u00a0 Just as the average American family has been forced to do without new luxuries for their house, with record deficits strangling the federal budget, the time has long passed for Pelosi to do without in hers too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had some big news to announce yesterday.\u00a0 So in typical Washington fashion, she did what any politician would do.\u00a0 Pelosi called a press conference.\u00a0 Her big news?\u00a0 With the Capitol Hill press corps huddled before her, the Speaker announced that she had spent $140,000 in taxpayer money on new “energy efficient” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,26,195,1152,1153,111],"class_list":["post-4902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cap-and-trade","tag-climate-change","tag-energy","tag-federal-deficit","tag-house-of-represenatives","tag-nancy-pelosi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4905,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}