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Originally Posted by noodle creek
No one was arguing that it is only a waste of money because we can't hunt whooping cranes. Smalls an DB started that argument on their own. I think what most people are saying is that in the grand scheme of things, whether it be a mallard or a whooping crane, it just isn't the best thing to be spending money on.
Of course they are already spending money and will continue to do so, but that wasn't what the point of this thread was. Welfare is an expensive government program, but does that make it right?
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It went that way because it seems you have to justify any money spent on any wildlife that is not a game species. The point of this whole thing was that $15k was being spent on a reward for information on the killing of bird, and that the government was wasting money, when in fact $14k of that reward is from nongovernment sources.