1) That represented 80% of the items cited as waste.
2) Visitor centors are also easy to pick on, as are infrastructure improvements at other places like airports. And I agree, $100M goes a long way toward better research.
But let's not get carried away with getting angry at the headline, without doing the background research. We don't know what was included in that visitor center upgrade - often times important things get burried in line items when they can't get funding themselves. Did CDC sneak in better internet connectivity under the "visitor center" upgrade because they were unsuccessful in getting it funded during that budget cycle? Did the visitor center experience a major structural problem (for instance, 50 year old pipes burst, causing flooding in the existing visitor center, rendering it unsafe?) We simply don't know enough to determine if it was waste or not.
And trust me, I've been around some "end of fiscal year, gotta spend the money" waste. It's outragious and happens every year.
But I've also been around for some really important spending, and when I ask where we got the money for that, I'm often very suprised as what trickery was required to get the resources we needed.
2) Visitor centors are also easy to pick on, as are infrastructure improvements at other places like airports. And I agree, $100M goes a long way toward better research.
But let's not get carried away with getting angry at the headline, without doing the background research. We don't know what was included in that visitor center upgrade - often times important things get burried in line items when they can't get funding themselves. Did CDC sneak in better internet connectivity under the "visitor center" upgrade because they were unsuccessful in getting it funded during that budget cycle? Did the visitor center experience a major structural problem (for instance, 50 year old pipes burst, causing flooding in the existing visitor center, rendering it unsafe?) We simply don't know enough to determine if it was waste or not.
And trust me, I've been around some "end of fiscal year, gotta spend the money" waste. It's outragious and happens every year.
But I've also been around for some really important spending, and when I ask where we got the money for that, I'm often very suprised as what trickery was required to get the resources we needed.
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