The state of North Carolina Department of Transportation (DOT) is spending $250,000 for a music trail in the eastern counties of the state.  Now where the heck does the DOT think it has the responsibility to use gas tax money to promote a music trail?  I personally do not look at the funding of the arts as a responsibility of government.  In my opinion, if the art is to be funded, let it be funded by those who value it.  But, even if you believe in government support of funding for the arts shouldn't it come from the general fund?  How do our politicians and public officials reach a point where it’s right to steal from gas tax money, which is specifically designated to fund roads, to fund kiosks along the highway to promote a music trail?  So the next time you are driving the roads of North Carolina and you car disappears into a pot hole know that the money that could have fixed them, is being used to fund the music trail.

This is abuse of the public trust and this is when government officials who voted for this need to be run out of office for just mere stupidity and arrogance.