Education always plays a major role on what the public shall do with money they acquire over time. For a reason that still may seem like a blur to many, the votes always seem to win in favor of what in the long run won’t benefit education. In this particular situation, the city council has found itself torn weather a library should use the surplus of 100,000 dollars to build a lounge or obtain more books for the public. The obvious reasons where many would put aside their greater good and vouch for something that will entertain them rather than educate them, is now being put aside because getting more books will create a better organized environment for the library to function, it will ignore the obvious chaos that will become of a “social lounge”, and it will reiterate our much needed factor of having to witness hard work. How many times can we honestly say that we go into a library and cannot find what we are looking for? What has been made apparent from this situation is not that the library doesn’t have the material, but someone already has it. Now you are left to wait until this “someone” who we cannot guarantee responsible brings the book back, or go beyond your means of time and effort to find the material elsewhere. It shouldn’t be fair that we are not allowed something because our number one resource is selling itself short. Now there are extra funds in buying more of the same material, or even up-to-date and more reliable material for us to use, so why not seize the opportunity? That leads us to our selfish realization that although education in society is pushed to be the greatest importance in a young adolescence life, is quickly disregarded for pure social chaos. Lounges are entertaining and some what a luxury to have, but only if there is nothing better to do with what’s given to us. From the beginning of time libraries were and are suppose to be a quiet environment to get work done, how much work can possibly be done when you add a lounge into an...