Facebook friends Michelle and Roy alerted me to this laughable example of government incompetence. Well, if anything that wastes $1 billion can be laughable.Check it out -- but note that the expose' comes from a conservative Canadian newspaper who, I believe, found the original story in the Federal Times. Obviously, 60 Minutes, the New York Times and the liberal lasses from The View don't have time to cover such stories.
The federal government has built a one billion dollar office complex in Virginia to house some 6,400 Pentagon workers that are to be moved soon. It’s a beautiful new office complex that rises like a mountain next to Northern Virginia’s I-395. But there are a few little problems.
There is no parking for one thing and for another, even if there was a parking lot for 6,400 workers, there are no roads to GET them there!
That’s right, there is no access that won’t cause tremendous traffic jams for the area. Worse, there aren’t any bus or Metro train stops anywhere near the building so workers cannot even take advantage of the Washington area’s extensive public transportation network to get to their new offices...
The accompanying photo of the Base Realignment and Closure building along 1-395 comes from the Federal Times article linked above. It is a detailed review of how this debacle happened and how, after much conversation and $700,000 spent by the State of Virginia, it remains a political disaster.
