http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science...eut/index.html
This kind of ticked me off. First of all, it's great that those elephants will be well cared for. I'm all for treating animals humanely (although not on the level of the idiotic PETA), but this is ridiculous.
Los Angeles has got to be the worst city (the article even says it) regarding homeless people, yet they fund this thing for a WHOPPING 3 (yep, count 'em, 3) elephants, who are probably going to die in the next few years anyway.
I really think that the amount of money being spent on this could have been better used to help the homeless people.
To help generate some debate/posts, what do you think LA could've done with this money (serious thoughts, not "hire a buncha hookers" or "giving it to me!" or something stupid like that)? I don't think $39 million dollars being spent on this is a good idea at all (I wouldn't complain if a private donor footed the bill for this, but the fact that they're wasting taxpayer money on something trivial like this is kind of mind-boggling. Yes I know, the article says that only $13 million is from the city council, but that's still a lot of money).
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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