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Originally Posted by Ham88
You can't shut down something else that you consider useless because the reason that the services exists is because it serves some purpose useful to our country. Additionally, if I recall correctly, the US government has been losing money on a year to year basis for basically its entire existence, so its been screwed up for ages.
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Libraries are under control of the counties in the states. They are different from the Federal government in that they need to live within a budget. Unlike the feds they cannot print money.
County tax money comes primarily from home taxes and income from this is at all time lows due to the foreclosures. It is not a matter of useless but priorities. Some people think fire stations and police are a higher priority than libraries. YMMV.
Dale