Hm. IMO we might not need reserves when things are going all right, but it's common sense to keep sensible reserves of everything from gold to oil to capacity for food production in case the sh*t REALLY hits the fan.
While I'm on the fence over whether they SHOULD stump up the money (ie. be morally obliged to kind of thing), I have no particular objection to some government money going towards the Titian, after all they waste enough on botched IT projects, wild schemes for this and that, and goodness knows what else, at least the Titian has both cultural and monetary value.
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Date: 2009-02-03 10:21 pm (UTC)While I'm on the fence over whether they SHOULD stump up the money (ie. be morally obliged to kind of thing), I have no particular objection to some government money going towards the Titian, after all they waste enough on botched IT projects, wild schemes for this and that, and goodness knows what else, at least the Titian has both cultural and monetary value.