Quote Originally Posted by HURRICANEBOB View Post
I agree...we just got to live below what we make so we can start paying back the debt. What bothers me most about all this, is our elected leaders just don't seem to get what is really important and what is nonessential spending.

If you are every close and can, stop in to Fort Knox. I understand construction supports local builders, I understand local workers are hired. The Offiers club is being expanded thought their are fewer officers on post, they are just of higher grade. I do agree with demolition of old buildings not used as a valid expense to avoid the expense of upkeep on an empy building. But look at the video signs around post, the sidewlaks for bikers no one uses, the revamped parade field that would have served just fine as an open field to conduct ceremonies without fancy bleechers. Improving the roads made sense, but not adding the 9 mile walking and biking trail I have yet to see anyone use.
It's been since very early this year or late last year that I was on post. I know what you're talking about...I was part of some of that construction. I worked on the Community Center (the one with the Star Bucks Coffee Shop on the one end of it) as well as a couple of the new neighborhoods they are presently building or have already built. I can honestly say when the government builds something they build it right. Of course too...code requires them to. In one instance they saved some old living facilities...what was once housing for a family of four they turned into housing for a family of six to eight. This is no joke...they took what was once a multi-family dwelling unit that could house ten families and turned it into a multi-family dwelling unit that will now house five families. I walked through several of those old housing units...and for as old as they were they were in very good shape. Judging from what I saw...I'm under the assumption that a military family is no longer a family of three or four...but more like five or six because in this multi-family dwelling unit I described, these were units that were being turned into five-bedroom units, two full baths, a powder room (toilet/sink), family room, etc...