Photographer Name:
Kurt Repanshek
Starting Display Date:
Monday, January 26, 2015
Web Location of Photo:
When it was built this million-dollar outhouse created all kinds of publicity for the National Park Service...for its price. How'd it get so expensive? Slate brought in from Vermont. Seven-hundred dollars worth of seed for landscaping. A porch for getting in out of the rain, or sunshine. And the design and construction.
- By Kurt Repanshek - January 26th, 2015 7:01pm
Comments
Did the toilet seats cost as much as the Air Force potty seats?
You should put up pictures of quarter million dollar per year NPS bureaucrats. At least a privy gets flushed occasionally.
This is the type of project the Park Service and Forest Service will actually BRAG, "these improvement made possible by your fee dollars."
Every American should see the unused parking lot the size of multiple football fields that was repaved in the Lodgepole area of Sequoia NP with signs ("your tax dollars at work") proclaiming the project was funded by the "American Recovery Act."
Paving more, building more extravagantly, then belly-aching -- or having their non-profit supporters belly-ache -- that they're unable to maintain current facilities with their current funding.
Consider economist Milton Friedman's "The Four Ways You Can Spend Money."
Quarter million dollar bureaucrats? You must be talking about Congresscritters.