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Originally Posted by Kappamd
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I was on Yahoo yesterday, and saw an article about a Texas HS's plan to build a $60 million football stadium. I about died (and nearly needed to be resuscitated when I realized it was my cousins' alma mater). I am aware of the affluency in that area, but COME ON! Are there not better uses of funds (especially tax dollars!)?
I mean, seriously, my UNIVERSITY just built a $60 million dollar stadium!
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Clearly you don't understand the importance of high school football in Texas.
Plus, with the new JerryWorld, our standards have been raised. Gotta keep up with the "Joneses!"
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As for the question at hand... that is a tough one. As someone already said, we all see life through our own biases and prisms. You would be hard pressed to find any funded program that doesn't sound great on paper (save for some of the outlandish research projects...). But since you said to prioritize then I would agree that space program and *some* foreign aid could be scaled back. The military is a huge part of our budget, but I confess that I would worry about cutting that too much. Too much depends on it.
In all honesty, I think billions of dollars go to waste in governmental jobs... from positions that aren't really needed, to meetings (including travel) that really aren't necessary, to supplies that could be done without, to programs that could be streamlined. I know there is an oversite office to monitor this, but I can't imagine that they are looking at all aspects of governmental spending, especially "lower level" activity. However, that "lower level" activity, spread across all offices/programs across the county, adds up. (says the person who used to work for a tax supported hospital... I saw money fly out the window on a daily basis). Same with the VA system. On the one hand, those vets deserve much, much better. On the other hand, there was little accountability on spending in the departments that I was familiar with. All that to say- I think tons of money could be re-couped by tightening up the purse strings in generic governmental offices.
I could seque that into quite the discussion on health care, but I won't go there now, and not in this thread.
Interesting topic Dee. I hope others respond, because I suspect the answers would be quite varied on what people see as important to keep. Deciding what to cut is what is hard.
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