"Fiscal Conservatives" - fail.

[TheBigotBasher]

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.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/28446

This birther/Conservative blog(rag) was mocking the government for spending $1billion on a building that no one can get to.

The building was built by the, to them, great sacred cow of Republican economics - the Department of Defense.

Even worse it was ordered under the Bush regime.

Even better it was all done one private contract.

Location: Alexandria, Va.
Owner: The Dept. of the Army, on behalf of the Dept. of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services
Developer: Duke Realty Corp., Indianapolis
General Contractor-Towers: Clark Design-Build, Bethesda, Md.
General Contractor-Sitework and Garages: Shirley Contracting Co., Lorton, Va.
Construction Management: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District
Architect: HKS Architects, Washington, D.C.; Wisnewski Blair & Associates, Alexandria, Va.; Studios Architecture, Washington, D.C.
Start Date: January 2009
Completion Date: September 2011

source: http://midatlantic.construction.com/midatlantic_construction_projects/2010/0601_MarkCenter.asp

A great example of Republican waste. And these people want to control the budget again?

Republicans



Republicans never fail to waste money when it comes to their contractor buddies in the military. Spending on people - no, no, no.

[Just One Woman]

1. Surprise Surprise

Who would have thunk it. Maybe it is for e.t. The way they acted as chosen ones, it could be their terminal. All kidding aside, roads may go in. But I would be curious to know when the plans were drawn up, or even more curious, when it was submitted for the budget as a long range plan.

[Bitwit1234]

2. Why in the world they ever built anything in that area is stupid

traffic is at a standstill most of the time. It takes almost 4 hours at night to make a trip to Front Royal that normally takes 45 minutes in the daytime. I am so glad that people can point to that and say oh gee another of the Bush Administration's foul ups.

[TheBigotBasher]

3. I only found this story because of the idiot stalker

blog known as something like hizzbullers who were trying to associate the current administration with this. Just to get their white sheets in a bigger twist I even clicked like on their post.

I loved doing that.