million $$ outhouse

I can remember ending up at a rest stop in Wyoming back in the 80s that used pit toilets instead of flush toilets, so you could technically call it an outhouse. It actually was a very nice building outside the pit toilet thing.

ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!! great post! i love stossel!

the private sector would have employed more, made a profit and built it for less than half the cost. and im in the industry so i know this for a certainty.

very cool though! but, is this what you want your tax money going too when we can barely pay our insurance premiums etc etc etc?

can you even imagine the waste if they handled healthcare? A bedpan will no longer be provided at the low, low cost of $25, it'll be $250.

There are certain things that are $$ that you need to do for a special toilet like this, but IMO there was a bunch of PORK and favors involved!

Some of the stuff they criticize - like bring in slate from Vermont (most slate comes from Vermont and can last 2x as long as Penn slate), having a porch (this is the only building in the area and so is where people take refuge from storms), windows (light and ventilation is sort of nice IMO) is stupid, but there is no doubt that it is excessive.

They singled this one out, but I am sure there are many more examples in every town in America...................and if we could stop it, we could make serious inroads on the debt and budgets!

can you even imagine the waste if they handled healthcare? A bedpan will no longer be provided at the low, low cost of $25, it'll be $250.

Looking over the typical itemized hospital bill these days, $250 is likely a bargain for a bedpan. They probably billed your insurance company $400 plus additional biohazard disposal fee for it.