The protracted relocation effort has cost U.S. taxpayers $564 million so far, with as much as $82 million left to go before the special government office established to oversee the process can shut its doors for good, according to the Department of Interior inspector general.
Congress passed the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act in 1974, but efforts to relocate Navajo families living on Hopi land are still underway. That law had placed a five-year time limit on the relocation process once a plan was formulated, which didn’t happen until 1981, the report said.
The specially-created government body tasked with approving requests for relocation benefits, now called the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation, should have finished by 1986, but 28 years later, it is still determining whether applicants are eligible.
With a staff of 35 and average annual expenses of $9.8 million, ONHIR has relocated an average of just 19 families each of the past five years.
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8 comments:
just another stellar Government Agency, ill take $9.8 million to do nothing
This is an outrage! they all should be fired immediately and no pension or benefits. This was just a group that has figured out how to feed off the government. It should not take 28 years to determine someones elegibility for anything!
Damn Obama!
Invite the Indians to the Eastern Shore where they can stand in the median strip with a sign.Nick can be their designated trainer.
Can you say job security?
Government never makes itself smaller. lol
That's half a family moved per staffer. At a cost of $280,000 per employee.
How about this...fire all but 1 person. Their job is to pay $100,000 to each family to move.
Perhaps the piece of crap Indians who keep clamoring about the Washington Redskins should focus on this!
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