Why is it with homeless shelters not being able to provide adequate bed space and schools in poor neighborhoods not being able to get adequate funding, this sh!thead gets $600,000 of taxpayer money to have his kitchen remodeled. Not only that we put him up in the fvcking Waldorf Astoria!
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The 600,000-dollar kitchen or why the UN is still relevant to the US
Wed Apr 2, 1:32 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States will pay 600,000 dollars to renovate the kitchen at the residence of the US ambassador to the United Nations in a sign the world body may be relevant to Washington despite the imbroglio over Iraq.
Officials said Wednesday the State Department has approved the expenditure at the request of the envoy, John Negroponte, who had asked for the funds to remodel and expand the kitchen at the apartment in New York's famed Waldorf-Astoria hotel.
"Yeah, it's a lot of money, but it's a lot of work and it's worth it," said one department official, who like the others, spoke on condition of anonymity.
"We're in this for the long haul," the official said of continued US participation in the United Nations in the face of its failure to meet President George W. Bush's challenge to disarm Iraq or lose relevance and go the way of the now-defunct League of Nations.
Negroponte, who succeeds such renowned US diplomats as Henry Cabot Lodge, Adlai Stevenson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Madeleine Albright in the UN post as well as the Waldorf residence, had complained that the 10- by 17-foot (three- by five-meter) kitchen was simply too small to accommodate the needs of guests at the multitude of functions he hosts, the officials said.
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The 600,000-dollar kitchen or why the UN is still relevant to the US
Wed Apr 2, 1:32 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States will pay 600,000 dollars to renovate the kitchen at the residence of the US ambassador to the United Nations in a sign the world body may be relevant to Washington despite the imbroglio over Iraq.
Officials said Wednesday the State Department has approved the expenditure at the request of the envoy, John Negroponte, who had asked for the funds to remodel and expand the kitchen at the apartment in New York's famed Waldorf-Astoria hotel.
"Yeah, it's a lot of money, but it's a lot of work and it's worth it," said one department official, who like the others, spoke on condition of anonymity.
"We're in this for the long haul," the official said of continued US participation in the United Nations in the face of its failure to meet President George W. Bush's challenge to disarm Iraq or lose relevance and go the way of the now-defunct League of Nations.
Negroponte, who succeeds such renowned US diplomats as Henry Cabot Lodge, Adlai Stevenson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Madeleine Albright in the UN post as well as the Waldorf residence, had complained that the 10- by 17-foot (three- by five-meter) kitchen was simply too small to accommodate the needs of guests at the multitude of functions he hosts, the officials said.
