{"id":42173,"date":"2014-05-25T10:01:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T16:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/25\/the-lunatics-lack-an-asylum-to-run.html"},"modified":"2014-05-25T11:17:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T17:17:59","slug":"the-lunatics-lack-an-asylum-to-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/25\/the-lunatics-lack-an-asylum-to-run.html","title":{"rendered":"The lunatics lack an asylum to run"},"content":{"rendered":"
It's ironic that the proposed site for the new DHS headquarters is a former psychiatric institution.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It's annoying that political infighting to choke back funding when it was Democratic Congress vs Bush, and when it's been a Republican Congress vs Obama will end up costing the taxpayers lots more, in escalated construction costs from delays and escalated temporary lease costs while the various agencies involved find quarters somewhere<\/i> …<\/p>\n

I'm sure there are good operational reasons for wanting more or all of these agencies grouped together physically. The supposition that all these agencies will always and forever be part of the same organization is probably a lot less certain.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Long-delayed Homeland Security headquarters in doubt<\/a>
\n Skepticism grows about the project, which is $1.5\u00a0billion over budget and 11 years behind schedule.\n <\/p>\n

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It's ironic that the proposed site for the new DHS headquarters is a former psychiatric institution.\u00a0 It's annoying that political infighting to choke back funding when it was Democratic Congress vs Bush, and when it's been a Republican Congress vs Obama will end up costing the taxpayers lots more, in escalated construction costs from delays … Continue reading “The lunatics lack an asylum to run”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,17,358,376],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security","category-poor-citizenship","category-taxing-spending","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2976,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/27\/yeah_heres_a_sh.html","url_meta":{"origin":42173,"position":0},"title":"Yeah, here’s a shocker","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-Aug-02 2:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Concealing debt and operating costs. 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