Wanna see the perfect visual for the partial government shutdown in Washington, D.C.?
One epitomizing the runaway government excess and total lack of concern for the American taxpayer embodied by both parties?
This a “trash/ recycle” pile located inside the Rayburn House office building (located across the street from the U.S. Capitol building).
This massive pile of keyboards, computers, monitors, printers, scanners and other office equipment has accumulated over the last week – and has been adorned with a note to “please remove.”
Take a look …
Amazing huh? And that’s just what one floor of one congressional office building (home to 169 U.S. Representatives) generates in a week.
“Just another example of the waste up here,” our source says. “My guess is that all that stuff got replaced with newer stuff, because we certainly aren’t downsizing.”
Indeed …
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Does any of that shit work? Those old calculators look like they may have been used for twenty years. This photo says nothing more than electronic stuffs breaks, becomes obsolete, or may require parts or supplies that too costly to justify their repair.
FAIL.
You clearly haven’t worked in a large office building. The most shocking thing there is the random christmas decoration.
I’ve seen way worse.
I’m working in way worse, we have three generations worth of computers stacked up because of the difficulty of getting rid of computers that have been on classified networks (Thanks
Bradleyer uhm Chelsa Manning). We probably have 10 deceased shredders, 20 various versions of phones (had to get rid of all the cordless phones – TEMPTEST hazard don’t ya know).That’s a typical back hall in a typical guvamint office building.
Smirks, my auditors still used printing calculators.
Amazing huh? And that’s just what one floor of one congressional office building (home to 169 U.S. Representatives) generates in a week.
Dude, that looks like one office’s worth of old computer junk. Keyboards, printing calculators (what the fuck is this, the ’80s?), little desk organizers, what looks like scanners or printers? Really?
It looks like some congressional fuck who has been in office for thirty years finally decided to do a little upgrading. If you feel that bad about it, drive down there yourself and offer to carry the heap of junk to Goodwill where it’ll sit on their shelves for however many weeks or months before ultimately being thrown out.
Another staged Tea Party Caucus member photo-op, if you ask me.
I’m sure the “source” is Sanford, who’s been popping up a lot on this site lately.
Edit: About a minute after I posted this comment, another Sanford press release about the shutdown went up on the homepage. Awesome.
Because someone told me once to never throw away a computer until I had removed and destroyed the hard drive, and because I do not know how to remove a hard drive, I had a closet in my office where I had been stacking old computers for about 6 years. Over time people put old monitors in there and other things. Just two weeks ago, I had a guy come in and take all the hard drives out, destroy them and empty that closet. It looked just like this. I suggest we send a letter to the powers that be and ask whoever is in charge of disposing of this junk to simply ship it and all similar junk directly to the offices of Fitsnews, so that it is not wasted.
First, adding calculators never get “outdated” if they’ve been made within the last two decades.
There’s no substitute for paper in running long chains of numbers.
Second, those keyboards are fairly new(within the last 5 years) as well as the multi-function center.
But hey, it’s only taxpayer money, plenty more where that comes from. Why bother to save anything or stretch its useful life?
As much as some of you think Mr. Folks is assuming this is good stuff getting thrown out some of you are assuming it is bad stuff finally getting thrown out. Calculators never get outdated, go into any office supply store and you’ll find a number of different calculators, with paper tape and without. The person that sent the picture to FitsNews was in a position, far better than anyone here I would wager, to ascertain the “waste” of discarding this stuff. However, that doesn’t work with the “shutdown” story line of 0bama so it must obviously be bad stuff finally getting thrown out and everyone else is just sour grapes.
So why don’t you offer to buy it from the Government. You will note that this is a “trash/recycle pile.. I would assume that means the person in charge of deciding whether to trash or recycle this stuff will. You know they do have government surplus sales all the time.
Don’t need it. Also, as noted above proper disposal is handled in a manner different from what you suggest.
I know people personally who work at state agencies that take home computers being discarded (trashed) by the agency, and sell them on Ebay for profit, with their manager’s okay. So, it’s not all worthless junk.
Then you should report them to the police. Agency managers have no authority to give away state property, not to mention the fact that would expose private information contained on the hard drive of that computer to potential abuse. So why don’t you list the names of the people you are talking about .so SLED can investigate?
Computers are tagged with an asset sticker and tracked until properly disposed or surplused. Please don’t spread that bullshit here or anywhere else. We state employees hate those little lies that accuse us. It’s petty, at best.
I seem to recall that when Mitt Romney left the Massachusetts governor office, he allowed his aides to take all the office computers with them when they left, with the result that there was no record left of any official government emails from the Romney administration.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/20/mitt-romney-defends-aides-purchasing-hard-drives_n_1103585.html
His staffers bought their computers, he didn’t give them to them. Neither he nor his staff violated any state law. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/dec/02/mitt-romney/romney-says-he-followed-law-and-precedent-taking-h/
Now lets think about this for a minute. Why would a bunch of Romney staff people want to buy a bunch of old government computer, when they could just go out and buy a new computer from Best Buy. Maybe they were really buying what was on the hard drive? Did they pay real fair market value for that information?
They could have rewritten the hard drives with a shareware program that would make them unreadable to all but the NSA for $25. Why spend $200+ a pop? Regardless, no laws were broken.
I’m not a Romney fan, just pointing out the flaw in Ol’Huffpo’s article.
Will, that’s the Longworth Building…I can tell by the floor. FAIL
And the hits just keep on coming…
The National Mall is “closed” due to the gubamint closure right?
Wrong, at least if you are supporting the “…Camino Americano: March for Immigration Reform…”. Obviously supporting an organization that advocates blanket amnesty and open borders and who is supported by SEIU and the AFL-CIO is an essential government service.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/park-service-oks-immigration-reform-rally-on-closed-national-mall/article/2536908