So, let's say your state has $11,000,000 and nothing to spend it on . . . . . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

What would you spend it on? What do you think they actually did spend it on?

Here are some suggestions. One of these is, in fact, what the state is spending the money to buy.



New books for selected inner city libraries

An enhance arts program in public schools

New uniforms for the state university's bowl-bound football team

More undercover drug enforcement cops

Surveillance cameras under several of the state's highway bridges

Fuel subsidies for the state's poor

Preventive dental exams to all the state's public school kindergarteners

New decor at all 127 state liquor stores





Rather than choose one of the expenditure examples, name your own if you prefer.






Click here for the answer

[Ian David]

1. Firefighters Warn of Toll Road Dangers

Firefighters Warn of Toll Road Dangers
Toll roads are causing rear end collisions with multiple fatalities.

As states scramble to sell freeways to foreign companies for conversion into pay roads, first responders issued a reminder this week of the extreme hazard presented by tolling. Fire chiefs in Bristol and Elkhart, Indiana complained that their firefighters and equipment are being tied up by frequent accidents on the Indiana Toll Road which, mile for mile, is the state's single most dangerous stretch of road. The toll road authority has refused to pay the bill for the hours spent responding to frequent fatal accidents.

"We had another five people who ended up burning to death," Bristol Fire Chief Bill Dumpster told WSBT-TV. "We had another one where we had three dead."

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) explained the danger of mainline toll booths in an April 2006 report. It concluded that backups caused by a toll booth contributed to a major accident in Illinois.

"The board noted that traditional toll plazas... interrupt the flow of high-speed traffic and tend to increase the incidence of rear-end collisions," the NTSB stated.

More:
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/17/1792.asp

[LonePirate]

2. Why not sock it away in a Rainy Day fund, if it is an option?

Even if someone considers any of these options to be questions, they all seem to provide some sort of jobs impact or public service.

[i_sometimes]

3. I have never

understood toll toads back east.

[Politicalboi]

4. Well this is simple

It's the only one that makes sense.

New uniforms for the state university's bowl-bound football team

[TexasTowelie]

5. Made in China?

Since they will be the lowest bidder.

[LiberalFighter]

6. Football uniforms and new decor for liquor stores are both in bad taste.