Also, if you owned any type of successful business, you would know that $57K is not adequate income to provide a respectable home and proper education to a household involving 3 people.

The fact that you would think that the AVERAGE salary of an individual is enough to support a household of 1 tells me that you are a pathological liar. Any person who has taken at least 1 statistics course would tell you that an average consists of a MAX and a MIN. This implies that there is a very good possibility that there are many people making a lot less than an annual salary of $57K a year, and also, a good portion of that sample in question recieving an annual income of much higher than $57K.

Any successful business owner can do the math. A business owner would also look at the percentage individuals living in poverty. A business owner would know to consider the number of people in poverty, but were not sampled for this statistic. A business owner would consider the cost of living in the city in question.

How dare you leave a comment stated as a fact when you never even bothered to do the research. Oh, and PS–I’m a software developer. I know enough about computers/software/Internet to make your head spin. You can not recieve the same services from a terminal that you can from a library.

If you have any questions on anything I just typed, use your COMPUTER to go to http://www.ask.com

Tell me how that works out for you.

As an educated individual with an MBA (which I seriously doubt, but let’s play this game with you), you should be aware of how important education is empowering our citizens of this country. By putting the power of knowledge directly in the hands of everyone, each person is now given the choice of educating themselves on any subject possible–whether they are looking at a MCAT practice test or the aspiring artist who gains inspiration from comic books.

The fact that you would be proud of the fact that you haven’t been to a library in 25 years is something you should be ashamed of. What economically conscious individual proudly boasts that they do not take advantage of benefits that they are already paying for (if you pay taxes, then you know you already purchased some of the books on the shelves, and some of the software on those computers), but instead, go home, and purchase these products AGAIN!

Seriously?

If you don’t want to use the library facilities, then don’t. However, be adult enough to know that there are others in this world who feel different about this matter, and that as an adult, you shouldn’t punish others for not having the same sentiments as you do. If you wish to stop supporting the library, please stop pay taxes. When you do that, then some other employed individual can pay for your meals in a federal prison, and then you can feel priviledged to have someone else’s tax dollars work for you.

Stop being so selfish. There is an entire world out there that is independent of your existent. Be aware of it.

Spending, on what ever, cannot continue to rise, when revenues are down and heading lower.

People do not want cuts, do not want higher taxes and yet want to spend the same amount, if not even more, when there is less in the piggy bank.