Sure, why not. We’re only about $12 trillion in debt, have a $1.3 trillion (and growing) deficit, and we’re cutting our defense budget in order to fund expanded entitlements. On top of that, we learned today that we can’t spare $3 billion more a year to go back to the moon.
But let’s spend another $3.4 billion to build a new place for the Department of Homeland Security, the same DHS the left spent years slamming, to hold meetings. Fantastic idea.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Washington notables broke ground on the future home of the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, symbolically starting construction on the biggest federal building project in the Washington area since the Pentagon 68 years ago.
The project will bring together more than 15,000 employees now scattered in 35 offices in the region, placing them on a 176-acre campus strewn with historic buildings in a long-neglected corner of Washington, five miles from the Capitol building.
Department leaders hope the $3.4 billion consolidation will help the department fulfill its core mission — protecting the homeland — in ways big and small.
“It will help us hold meetings,” Secretary Janet Napolitano said. “It will help us build that culture of ‘One DHS.’”
Doug Powers does the math and figures that Janet Napolitano could hold a meeting in this new building every day for the next 10 years and each meeting would still cost about $1.3 million. But not too much to spare so that Napolitano can be comfortable, right?
$1 trillion for ObamaCare. Hundreds of billion on global warming crap. $787 billion for liberal pet projects. $3.4 billion for Janet Napolitano to be more comfortable. And yet we can’t spare $3 billion to return to the moon. Amazing.
10. September 2009 at 3:50 am
Was this one of those “shovel ready” stimulus package programs that we paid for? It seems consistent, seeing as how it will cost taxpayers dearly, benefit government at the expense of small businesses, and only a small number of Washington elite and insiders will actually benefit from it. Yep, it must have been.
15. September 2009 at 7:18 pm
Is there absolutely no end to the ways that this administration can think up to invade our lives and spend our tax money? This is so staggeringly stupid in the face of the recession that we are experiencing that one has to seriously wonder at the extent of the stupidity, greed and insensitivity that is loose in this group of idiots.