[T. P. Pole]

Remember, this is the normal method of government agencies. I think it is Rush who calls it the Washington Monument effect. When there is a threat of them not getting an increase in funding, they react by closing the highest visible piece of their department.

Last year when they didn't get a large of an increase in the roads budget, the highway folks here in Wisconsin didn't cut bonuses, or put off building a bikepath along a interstate highway bridge, instead, they closed the rest stops.

[jackbill]

Bingo - what you said.

Look at the U.S. Postal Service. They lose money (and pay hundreds of millions of dollars in "bonuses) and what do they talk about? Getting rid of junk mail? Oh, no. They talk about getting rid of Saturday delivery.