Peak Inside the Treasure Room of America – 16,000 Pieces of Art Hidden Away

6 Responses to Peak Inside the Treasure Room of America – 16,000 Pieces of Art Hidden Away

1. Pie Guevara says:

   Friday, February 28, 2014 at 7:43 pm

   I was going to make a crack about the ark of the covenant before clicking on the link …
2. Peggy says:

   Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 10:13 am

   This is mind-blowing. I was impressed with the, “Wall gun” on display at the Cody museum and the items on display at war memorials in Europe, but they combined pale in comparison. Hopefully, one day these treasures will be on display for everyone to see.
3. Libby says:

   Tuesday, March 4, 2014 at 5:11 pm

   Just so you all realize that this sort of thing, the building and staffing of this facility, is the sort of thing you all are inclined to denigrate as “pork”.

   Or maybe it’s only pork when it’s somebody else’s bacon?
4. Tina says:

   Tuesday, March 4, 2014 at 10:34 pm

   16,000 pieces of art and one warehouse. Its a fairly decent asset requiring little oversight. The bill to keep the atmosphere “just so” would be a lot lower if we could frack!

   The US government has owns a lot of buildings and property that it doesn’t use. If we wanted to downsize might be a more appropriate place to start:

   Hundreds of millions of your tax payer dollars are being spent to hold onto vacant and unused buildings around the country. Exhibit A: A mammoth structure in Georgetown, right in the heart of the nation’s capital. The rooftop view looks out over the Potomac River, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, even the Washington Monument. This is some of the most valuable real estate in Washington, D.C., and yet the building has sat mostly unused for more than a decade.

   There are an estimated 14,000 vacant or nearly vacant buildings owned by the federal government that cost taxpayers some $190 million a year to maintain, according to a White House spokesperson. A new report by the Government Accountability Office found that the government does not seem to know very much about its own buildings. Many dilapidated properties were listed as being in “Excellent” condition; some empty building are actually listed as occupied.

   Who cares when its other people’s money, right?
5. Peggy says:

   Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 9:05 am

   This problem has existed for as long as I can remember. Even the infamous GSA has complained the complex regulations prevents them from disposing of property in a timely manner resulting in billions lost to maintenance, rent and declining market sales.

   http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/02/house-lawmakers-demand-the-fed-stop-sitting-on-our-assets/
6. Tina says:

   Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 10:34 am

   Good old bureaucratic red tape. It costs us at the government level, it costs us at the business level, it costs us at the personal level.

   What a waste.

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