Billionaire investor donates 7.5 million to help repair Washington Monument

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Originally Posted by Honu

Really? Uhm ok well there ya go, Glad that we got that cleared up. It makes no sense, its a national landmark and it would get fixed without the 7.5 million dollar donation. Maybe Im just stupid...ah no maybe I most likely am. Just would think 7.5 donated to homeless families would have been better spent.
Think about the whole D.C area and it makes you wonder what they do with any of the dollars they pull in considering most of the people right outside the area are on welfare and live in poverty and murder and gang violence are the number 1 statistic. Glad to see those millions in revenue at work.

It is easy to criticize how other people spend their money but (in theory) the 7.5 million that the govt doesnt spend on the monument can go to "better" causes. The Washington Monument is a tribute to the man who is chiefly responsible for the countries existence. His memory and thememory of the brave soldiers who fought with him AND Washington's conduct after the war was won (not becoming a King or dictator as he surely could have) deserves to be maintained.