The merits of “Volcano Monitoring” aside. How does it stimulate the economy?
By employing graduate students and ensuring that the education establishment can hang onto young people longer, and perhaps convince them to become climatologists after stringing them along for a number of years hiking out to remote volcanoes and installing equipment to monitor them.
But yes, the point you’re making is valid, it’s not a stimulus item, it should be part of the normal budget.
The article explains.
It doesn’t. Just another in a long list of ‘grow the govt’ items.