The US government owns a lot of land, and a lot of buildings. Some are grand federal buildings that house offices and crucial services. Others are just there on federal land. And many are miscellaneous buildings like houses that were unclaimed, abandoned, or taken for taxes owed. Estimates of the number of those buildings range between 120,000 and 400,000, but pinning that down to a more accurate number is difficult, if not impossible. The problem is that those properties are managed by widely different agencies, from five branches of the military to the National Park Service to obscure agencies we don't even know about. Efforts to consolidate the information from all those agencies is like trying to herd cats. (via Digg)
Just from your description, Miss Cellania, sounds like our federal government is too big.
ReplyDeleteOn the contrary Tim, we need another agency to keep track of all these buildings. LoL
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