Hmmm

http://highschoolsports.cleveland.com/news/article/-8409527149398245364/st-edward-football-needed-3-meals-2-busses-and-19750-to-schedule-florida-opponents/#incart_river

What I find fascinating about this is that, save for Florida law...we would never get ANY sense of the costs of this.  It doesn't sound like all that much cash, which leads me to believe that...um, additional funding was provided.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/most-americans-get-free-stuff-from-the-government/

Something that a lot of people -- mainly liberals, but others -- tend to forget is that nothing is free; something costs something, and someone (preferably someone else) has to pay for it.  What motivates the anti-spending conservative is the fact that, at every "transaction," the cost goes up -- handling fees, corruption, etc., -- and the transparency disappears...and eventually, you figure out if you do not spend the money in the first place, you're actually ahead...Big Farm subsidies for instance, the money spent on the welfare system; hell, even school vouchers, if you think about it, stems from this very notion.  Obviously, it doesn't work all the time, but one suspects if it was tried, it would work more often than not...