--no offense friend, but this is exactly the sort of thing needs to be cut out of the budget. Across the board, wasteful military spending, inner city welfare spending (I think multiple generations in a row is more than enough time to learn "get a job"), spending to pay farmers not to grow (we used to just buy surplus to use for actual real emergency food aid) or..pay homeowners to manage their own private woodlots?? Say whut?? Why should tax payers do this? We need to cut trillions from the budget to keep from going bust economically, our society destroyed, etc, and it all adds up. From the smallest unnecessqry expense to the largest, across the board..cut like crazy before it is too late.
Again, not ranking you personally, just wasn't aware of this deal and it sure sounds like something that doesn't need to happen on the tax payer's nickle.
I don't think folks out in the sticks need to be taxed to pay for..like subways...and folks in town don't need to be taxed to pay for..private woodlots. There's just way too much of this stuff that goes on, plus it always involves yet another huge government bureaucracy with legions of busywork jobs, then lifelong pensions for said jobs, etc. This just spend like crazy for everything under the sun is simply unsustainable.
Dang I don't want anyone here mad at me, but shazzam! It's in the headlines and stuff, we are about flat busted, to three or four generations out already.