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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6184509" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>it looks inspired by Star trek, but it isn't Star trek. On that direct point, we don't have anything to be peeved about because nobody spent tax dollars recreating the bridge of the Enterprise.</p><p></p><p>Nextly, any command center is likely going to be designed by somebody. So assuming we actually needed a command center, tax dollars were going to be spent paying somebody to design it, plan it and build it. Regardless of what it looked like. </p><p></p><p>I think we'll have to take it as a given that no office (government or corporate) is going to head over to Office Depot and buy the $30 2.5' x 5' tables and $50 office chairs and some power strips to furnish their command center that VIPs will be taken through. Suffice it to say, some money is going to be spent on appearances, whether we like it or not.</p><p></p><p>So in my mind, the real determining factors on whether taxpayers should be indignant or not is whether this configuration was more efficient/effective than others, and whether that was worth the return on investment. </p><p></p><p>In other words, did we pay too much for this, compared to another fancy arrangement that would have looked nicer AND been better for managing the center?</p><p></p><p>I doubt that we, the average tax payers have enough info to truly determine if we needed it, if it was the most effective design, if it was the best price, if it was the most impactful for influencing VIPs who visited it. </p><p></p><p>Despite some people potentially having objections to the general topic the command center was for (politics), the decision was made to build it. Since those objectors didn't get their way, the fallback position should be "did we do the thing I didn't want us to do as well as we could do it?"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 6184509, member: 8835"] it looks inspired by Star trek, but it isn't Star trek. On that direct point, we don't have anything to be peeved about because nobody spent tax dollars recreating the bridge of the Enterprise. Nextly, any command center is likely going to be designed by somebody. So assuming we actually needed a command center, tax dollars were going to be spent paying somebody to design it, plan it and build it. Regardless of what it looked like. I think we'll have to take it as a given that no office (government or corporate) is going to head over to Office Depot and buy the $30 2.5' x 5' tables and $50 office chairs and some power strips to furnish their command center that VIPs will be taken through. Suffice it to say, some money is going to be spent on appearances, whether we like it or not. So in my mind, the real determining factors on whether taxpayers should be indignant or not is whether this configuration was more efficient/effective than others, and whether that was worth the return on investment. In other words, did we pay too much for this, compared to another fancy arrangement that would have looked nicer AND been better for managing the center? I doubt that we, the average tax payers have enough info to truly determine if we needed it, if it was the most effective design, if it was the best price, if it was the most impactful for influencing VIPs who visited it. Despite some people potentially having objections to the general topic the command center was for (politics), the decision was made to build it. Since those objectors didn't get their way, the fallback position should be "did we do the thing I didn't want us to do as well as we could do it?" [/QUOTE]
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