Is there any person, any agency, any company, any government "program" that has enough money? It certainly doesn't seem so. Two different, apparently unrelated new articles point out one of the absolute absurdities of government and government spending.

Article #1, horribly titled "Education Wins Again," absolutely celebrates a NC Supreme Court decision that all fines collected by government must go to the school systems. The author can barely contain his excitement that over $500 million of new money will be given to the school system. At the same time he lamented the quite obvious natural reaction of the legislature -- just shift the spending from one area of the budget to another, making quite literally no different in funding.

At the same time, Article #2 laments that the very same court decision says that the University of North Carolina system cannot keep the fines they collect, and instead must give them...to the schools. And to compound the utter stupidity, the school has been setting aside these collections since 2001 in anticipation of this decision, but they will adamantly fight having to pay the money.

Government is way to big and far too out of control. Nothing about this setup makes any sense. Since the government schools are now going to very suddenly get $500 million in new money, will the lottery disappear? That was supposed to only generate around $300 million for schools. Will the government schools get a sudden influx of over $800 million? How much of the $10 million that the University needs to give to the government will the government turn around and give back to them?

We need a new government. A Constitutional Republic would be nice. Anyone want to start one with me?

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