But it’s ok, folks, most of the money came from the $800 million “stimulus,” so it’s not being funded by taxpayers. Right?
by Michael Naragon
According to a story published Tuesday on The New American‘s website, the new additions to the IRS facility in Andover, Massachusetts will include an art gallery, indoor gardens, and a 7,000-square-foot cafeteria.
Officials at the U.S. General Services Administration said the $80.5 million awarded the agency under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-the formal name for the stimulus program-was to “put people back to work quickly” and “transform federal buildings into high-performance green buildings.”
The renovations and “green upgrades” at the 400,000 square-foot complex will create “a comfortable, collaborative environment,” and a sense of “community and belonging,” architect Levi told the Herald. “It will be welcoming for the people who use it.”
Truly staggering.
Does an organization that, by design, takes money from the working citizens of this country really have any chance at creating a sense of “community and belonging”? Also, does this signal that the IRS, which eliminated 1,400 jobs at that very facility last year, is priming itself to begin hiring? Perhaps they’ll pick up the cast-off census workers whose employment numbers allowed the president to boast of his economic success Friday.
And why exactly are we paying for the IRS to have an art gallery? Or do they see confiscations in our future? In a time of record national debt and ballooning deficits with no end in sight, this sort of waste is bureaucratic insanity at its worst.
