This story can't be right, I mean, our economy is struggling now and we are paying for two wars and times are tight, right? That's only partially why it is so shocking that our government has just started construction on a 3.4 billion dollar Homeland Security building. The monstrous building will become the new home for 15,000 employees which now are in 35 different offices.
This is a huge undertaking as well, with the only larger construction project being the Pentagon 60 years ago. The only thing more shocking than the amount of the project and price of this project is the fact that we need such a huge complex for Homeland Security.
The Department of Homeland Security was started in 2001, only 8 years ago. In that time it has ballooned to colossal proportions and sucked untold millions out of the country's coffers. This new billion dollar building is just the latest and most evident.
History of Homeland Security Dept-http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/brief_documentary_history_of_dhs_2001_2008.pdf
Billion Dollar Complex-http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/09/homeland.security.headquarters/index.html
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