I have always thought of our Govt as wasteful and inefficient but when I am presented with actual facts and numbers, I cannot begin to fathom the depth of chaos that has to be applied to accomplish those results. Who runs these departments and how in God's name do they manage to hold onto those jobs when reports like this are unveiled ?
In hindsight, this makes Obama's National Park land grab look even more ludicrous.
I know most people do renewals on-line but next time you go to the DMV, think about this pic and laugh......or not.
Forest Service Owns ‘National Junkyard’ of Thousands of Unused Buildings
Audit: Buildings falling apart, covered in mold, rat droppings
http://freebeacon.com/issues/forest...ail&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-b44351610c-22930469
The Forest Service manages almost 40,000 administrative, recreation, and research buildings. By comparison, there are 14,146 McDonald's restaurants in the U.S., and 13,172 Starbucks locations.
The Forest Service also manages 193 million acres of land, as well as roads, dams, and bridges, and has not dealt with $5.5 billion—nearly the amount of its entire $7 billion budget—in maintenance costs for all of its properties.
The Forest Service has identified 3,374 buildings it wants to decommission, which need $195 million worth of repairs. In all, the Forest Service's buildings need $1.195 billion in maintenance.
In addition, the Forest Service is not conducting safety inspections of dams that are considered high-risk. The Forest Service oversees approximately 3,200 dams nationwide.
"We found that [the Forest Service] continues to lack an effective control structure for validating that required plans are maintained for dams and necessary inspections of dams are performed to identify any deficiencies affecting a dam's safety," the inspector general said.
Auditors surveyed a sample of 182 dams the Forest Service oversees, and found 76 percent either had no documentation or did not receive required safety inspections.
Seventy-seven percent of dams considered to be high hazards "did not receive required safety inspections within the last 5 years." Sixty-one percent had no emergency action plan, and some that did had not been updated since 1982.
In hindsight, this makes Obama's National Park land grab look even more ludicrous.
I know most people do renewals on-line but next time you go to the DMV, think about this pic and laugh......or not.