THEY DON’T EVEN FLUSH!!! If the national parks department can pay a million dollars for an outhouse, how much do you think the national healthcare system will pay for hospitals?
“Heading to a national park this holiday weekend? As I reported before, if you go to the right one, you may have the privilege of using a million-dollar outhouse.
In Pennsylvania, the National Park Service built a one-seater outhouse that looks more like a chalet than a toilet.”
“When the government spends your money, they decide local slate isn’t good enough. The slate must be imported from Vermont.
They must use flower seed that costs $700 a pound. The outhouse must have windows and a porch. Why does an outhouse need a porch? And of course, the paint must be epoxy that costs $78 a gallon.
When the smoke cleared, more than $780,000 had been spent to build the outhouse. How did they spend that much? Well, bureaucracy costs money.
It took more than a dozen Park Service engineers and architects two years to design the outhouse. That cost over $100,000. Then to oversee the project, a supervisor from Denver lived onsite in Pennsylvania for about a year. That cost another $80,000.
Then they had to get environmental approvals and meet all government construction rules. That meant hiring minority-owned firms; size requirements mandated by the Americans With Disabilities Act; and paying union-like construction wages. It adds up.
And it gets worse. In Montana, the Park Service has built a four-hole outhouse. The cost: One million dollars. Give me a break. ” (from blogs.abcnews.com)
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