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Originally posted by A Black Falcon
The environment should be right near the top of the list of government programs... I mean, how could anything be more important than the air we breathe and the water we drink?

Optimally, I would agree. But we throw more and more money at the environment and apparently things never get better. Every year we're told that we're on the razor's edge of destroying the planet, so we need more money from you.

Of course, I'm wary of environmental programs when they are birthed by doomsday scientists (and Hollywood morons) who have a new, radically different terminal prediction every year for us.

I know it'd be foolhardy to completely ignore the environment. But that particular portion of my tax money has been so terribly managed that I simply don't trust them anymore. My views on public schools are identical: We spend more money per student today than any time in history, yet kids are doing abysmally, far worse than ever. Yet, the only solution, we're told, is to spend even more. So we do, and things keep getting worse.