Your Tax Dollars at Work: Billion-Dollar Embassies...

Prior to reading this report, I had no idea that American taxpayers were paying billions of dollars to build embassies in foreign countries.  These are veritable monuments to bureaucracy.  $850 million for an embassy in Pakistan?  What in the hell are these people thinking?

Here's what I'm thinking:

Rope.
Tree.
Bureaucrat.
Some assembly required.