Why shouldn’t the government spend money on Volcano Monitoring?
Well, the government has a pretty big budget deficit. Mostly because lots of people don’t have jobs and thus can’t pay taxes. They also can’t buy things from businesses that need money to keep from having to lay off their employees too, who then are not be able to pay taxes or buy things, and so on. So the best solution for the problem is not to try and keep people working, but to let the people who still have money keep it. Then it will be easier for the starving and homeless people to know who to rob. Then the poor can be shot in self-defense, quickly eliminating the problem entirely with a bare minimum of economic depression and loss of life.