Teacups instead of safety

Hmmmmmm, this is rather interesting. I'm hearing that the North Carolina Mine Safety Program is in trouble because of a lack of state funding, acccording to a recent article. They spend most of their time helping to train miners at small mine operations. Their budget was cut by $270,000 and they are facing laying off 1/3 of their staff and cutting the training programs. Yet, state legislators there found enough money to fund a "Teacup Museum" to the tune of $400,000 and will build a "sports hall of fame" for a little over $2 million. How's that for keeping priorities straight? Your comment?