Spend it on shoring up SS would be better.

Posted: Friday, December 4, 2015 10:35 pm

Thumbs down to the notion of the S.C. General Assembly spending more than $5 million to better display the Confederate battle flag that was removed in July from the Statehouse grounds in Columbia. The flag was supposed to be headed to the S.C Confederate Relic Room in the State Museum. But now a consultant has proposed a $5.3 million project to create a display and memorial for the flag ...

http://www.scnow.com/opinion/article_4841ff2a-9b01-11e5-b8a5-1f79333823f7.html

5.3 million might be reasonable if it is a multi million dollar collection of historical flags. Even then projects like this usually have a wealthy benefactor or group.

also sent it to the Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, which already displays the three Confederate flags pulled in 2000 from the dome and from Senate and House chambers, and directed the Commission to provide a plan for displaying it: so in SC they seem reluctant to scrap any confederate flag that's been flown, even if it's from a hundred thirty-five or a hundred fifty years after the war

... members of the .. commission who attended the meeting offered no objections or revisions to the proposal. They will receive a more detailed plan .. later this month. By law they must make a recommendation to the General Assembly by Jan. 1. The commission was charged with proposing a plan for displaying the flag after lawmakers voted in July to remove it from the State House grounds ... According to the proposal, the flag from the grounds would be displayed in a case that fronts a wall of electronic tiles that could display the names of all 24,000 Confederate South Carolina troops killed in the Civil War ...
Consultants propose spending $5.3 million on Confederate flag display
BY JEFF WILKINSON