The E.P.A. has booked the Renaissance Arlington Hotel in Virginia this fall for a conference on environmental justice. They booked 195 rooms for 24 days each at a cost of $1.6 million. When you ad per diem for two people per room at $46 per day, that's another $430,000. PLUS... travel expenses.
And, we haven't even gotten to the speakers fees, entertainment expenses, printing expenses or wine for the jacuzzi tubs yet.
I was going to ask why they can't teleconference, but I read in the papers that their computers are crashing like crazy, similar to the I.R.S. crashes. Total costs will probably approach $4 million.
How many lives could that save at the V.A.?
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