Ground Broken on $3.4 billion Homeland Security Complex

[Appaholic]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Washington notables broke ground on the future home of the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, symbolically starting construction on the biggest federal building project in the Washington area since the Pentagon 68 years ago.

The project will bring together more than 15,000 employees now scattered in 35 offices in the region, placing them on a 176-acre campus strewn with historic buildings in a long-neglected corner of Washington, five miles from the Capitol building.

Department leaders hope the $3.4 billion consolidation will help the department fulfill its core mission -- protecting the homeland -- in ways big and small.

"It will help us hold meetings," Secretary Janet Napolitano said. "It will help us build that culture of 'One DHS.'"



http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09 ... index.html

[bobbythekidd]

"It will help us hold meetings," Secretary Janet Napolitano said. "It will help us build that culture of 'One DHS.'"

Gotomeeting.com

Glad we can waste some more money. Besides, has anyone ever been to a really productive meeting in the first place?

[TheDancinMonarch]

Just wait until they build the new "Socialized Medicine Building". I bet it will make that DHS building look like a hut. Not to mention making the population of the US much healthier. Insurance company profits or a gigantic new building populated with slack-jawed give-a-crap civil servants: what the hell is the difference?

[dgreco]

at least they are fixing an old mill

[mainejeff]

Thanks Conks!

[Col Hogan]

Thanks Conks!

Neo-Cons, MJ...true conservatives have opposed DHS as the biggest power grab by the feds ever...

But the health care grab may over-shadow it soon...

[Appaholic]

Thanks Conks!

Yet, the Donks seem happy with the plans & are content with moving forward......kind of like DADT....so a frivoulous Conk boondoggle is now a Donk job creator....

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

Thanks Conks!

Yet, the Donks seem happy with the plans & are content with moving forward......kind of like DADT....so a frivoulous Conk boondoggle is now a Donk job creator....

Why even point this shit out to the dolts any longer Appa? It is as fucking obvious to a critical thinker as can be. The two sides are the problem and yet they like to make those in the middle think it's the other sides fault.

[BlueHen86]

Yet, the Donks seem happy with the plans & are content with moving forward......kind of like DADT....so a frivoulous Conk boondoggle is now a Donk job creator....

Why even point this shit out to the dolts any longer Appa? It is as fucking obvious to a critical thinker as can be. The two sides are the problem and yet they like to make those in the middle think it's the other sides fault.

Agreed, but it works because there are so many party line lemmings out there eager to follow...

[Rob Iola]

Thanks Conks!

Now now - if us Conks were behind this we'd pay for it by cutting taxes and invading Venezuela...

Don't ask me how, we just would...

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

It's good to have Blue Hen Group back together. You guys play a sweet tune on those unusual instruments that just makes me feel like dancing.

[Rob Iola]

It's good to have Blue Hen Group back together. You guys play a sweet tune on those unusual instruments that just makes me feel like dancing.

It's our diggery doos...

[Chizzang]

This whole thing is just more evidence that the difference between a Republican and a Democrat in office is simply the words they use when they speak...

The results are alarmingly similar

[TheDancinMonarch]

This whole thing is just more evidence that the difference between a Republican and a Democrat in office is simply the words they use when they speak...

The results are alarmingly similar

They are all cut from the same cloth and I detest them all. They are all weasels.

[CID1990]

Thanks Conks!

A DHS was the number one recommendation made by the 9/11 Commission. President Bush concurred and established it.

You can thank conservatives all you want, but Obama has swelled its ranks since he took office. He has the ability to dissolve it if he wants.

Personally I think that 90% of the 9-11 Commission recommendations were pure tripe, and DHS was Turd Number one.

[Col Hogan]

Thanks Conks!

A DHS was the number one recommendation made by the 9/11 Commission. President Bush concurred and established it.

You can thank conservatives all you want, but Obama has swelled its ranks since he took office. He has the ability to dissolve it if he wants.

Personally I think that 90% of the 9-11 Commission recommendations were pure tripe, and DHS was Turd Number one.

SPOT ON!!!!!!

[Pwns]

Where is the E.L.F vandalism squad when you need them?

The federal government is getting f%^&ing scary.

[slycat]

"It will help us hold meetings," Secretary Janet Napolitano said. "It will help us build that culture of 'One DHS.'"

Gotomeeting.com

Glad we can waste some more money. Besides, has anyone ever been to a really productive meeting in the first place?

They need place to go pee and poop too.

[AZGrizFan]

As an Arizonana, let me make one thing perfectly clear:




WE DON'T WANT NAPOLITANO BACK!!!!

[wideright82]

Where is the E.L.F vandalism squad when you need them?

The federal government is getting f%^&ing scary.

Did you just make a Santa Clause reference? Reps

[houndawg]

Thanks Conks!

Now now - if us Conks were behind this we'd pay for it by cutting taxes and invading Venezuela...

Don't ask me how, we just would...

If you conks had an ounce of common sense between you, you would have invaded Venezuela instead of Iraq in the first f***ing place. It's right next door and a bunch of guys from Fuzzy's Tavern armed with pool cues could have taken it before happy hour.

[houndawg]

Thanks Conks!

A DHS was the number one recommendation made by the 9/11 Commission. President Bush concurred and established it.

You can thank conservatives all you want, but Obama has swelled its ranks since he took office. He has the ability to dissolve it if he wants.

Personally I think that 90% of the 9-11 Commission recommendations were pure tripe, and DHS was Turd Number one.

When has a government commission ever not recommended a new agency as a solution to any problem?