One of the dangers of bureaucracy is how easily some pet presidential scheme gets turned into a federally-funded entity and then grows over the years into a useless, but expensive, tapeworm on the public treasury. Stacy McCain draws our attention to a report by Colorado Watchdog on the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and its exorbitantly remunerated employees (plus a crass “faculty member” who seems to spend an inordinate amount of her “work day” tweeting about renewable energy topics like sex and flatulence).
In the future, everyone will have a government job, but no one will actually do any work. So long, America! It was nice while it lasted.
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I wonder if anyone remembers that old fashioned concept: accountability.
ReplyDeleteI guess my age is showing.
ReplyDeleteShe's on the "faculty" in the technology department. Organization as campus. Goodness, how I hate this junk.
You don't have a nice leather chair to fart in at meetings, now do you?
ReplyDeleteTake a look at their huge "campus" on their tour. Wonder how much they soaked the taxpayer for this country club? nrel.gov
Yojimbo, I'll fart in metal chairs for a fraction of that cost!
ReplyDeletePaco, you want to keep an eye on this boondoggle in the making. Given how Obama and his friends steal money hand over fist, this operation simply screams "SCAM!"
We have things like this in Australia and probably Canada, but the wages for them in US seem much higher, and the secrecy. Eg our Tim Flannery is I think paid much less.
ReplyDeleteThe secrecy explains the extravagance. The Cold War encouraged popular respect for government secrets in the US. Now it just hides waste or worse.
"Green energy" my left buttcheek. It's all about how much money can be squeezed out of the taxpayers.
ReplyDeleteJeffS: Oh gee, a "Task Force"
ReplyDeleteMaybe they can dig up Chester Nimitz to command, huh?
Considering how many dead people voted in the last election, mojo, I wouldn't be surprised.
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