Government Allows OCW to Destroy $400,000 Stimulus Project (legal, Obama, March)

[doctrain]

"Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is asking the Obama administration to explain why federal authorities haven't cracked down on the Occupy D.C. protesters camped out in a federal park downtown."

"In a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, the chairman of the House oversight committee claimed that the encampment appears to violate a ban on "camping" in the park. Issa also notes that the square was also recently refurbished with $400,000 in new grass, light fixtures and other upgrades, paid for with stimulus money."

"While the merits of this stimulus funding are debatable, we can all agree that once the federal government invested the funds, no government agency should have allowed it to be damaged or destroyed when it legally could have been prevented," Issa wrote."


This is so wasteful. Why are these people, who merely say they do but in actuality do NOT represent 99% of us, get a free pass on occupying space that should belong to all of us and trashing things that all our taxes have paid for? When do the "rights" of a few get to override the majority of us?

These people have a right to protest; but when did the right to have a marching picket line to express one's grievances become the right to "tent city" costing the tax payers so much money, not to mention inaccessibility to public land that is supposed to be for everyone's use???

Issa questions administration on Occupy D.C. encampment - WGHP (http://www.myfox8.com/news/politics/la-pn-occupy-dc-darrell-issa-20111213,0,2182295.story - broken link)

[HappyTexan]

Half a million dollars spent on GRASS ? Meanwhile the country is falling apart economically.

[doctrain]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

Half a million dollars spent on GRASS ? Meanwhile the country is falling apart economically.

But, I imagine it includes some of the finest B.S. fertilizer found anywhere.

[sanrene]

Completely outrageous...but that is just chump change to the democrats and obama.