Bloomberg.com is reporting that the United States’ debt of $13 trillion will overtake the country’s GDP 2012. Ever wonder where all the money is being spent?
How about a beautiful, state of the art, lavish IRS building. The Boston Herald has a story on a $92 million renovation being done on the government building. The IRS “compound” will have: a reflecting pool, an art gallery, indoor gardens, a 7,000 square-foot cafeteria, and an amphitheater. Of the $92 million, $80 million came from Obama’s Stimulus bill. The architect, Jonathan Levi, is slated to get an $8.3 million payday for the project. The building is designed to provide a “comfortable, collaborative environment,” that will foster “community and belonging.” Levi says “it will be welcoming for the people who use it.” And what better use of taxpayer dollars than to build a palace befitting of a French monarch, that will house bureaucrats whose job is to harass American citizens and coerce them into giving ever larger percentages of their hard-earned paychecks to the government? The new building will have room for 2,000 employees. The current staff consists of 900 people, after 1,400 unnecessary workers were laid off last year. In fact, IRS spokesperson Peggy Riley said “nothing has changed since April (when she said it was premature to say whether permanent jobs would come to Andover once construction is complete in August 2012.)”
$92 million on a reflecting pool, an art gallery, indoor gardens, a 7,000 square-foot cafeteria, an amphitheater, and a 2,000 person capacity office for 900 employees. Not a single permanent job created. Hard to figure out why the country is going bankrupt.
