2600 cops at $50,000 a year for 20 years
or
288 Skybridges at $9 million each
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260 $10 million schools
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21 $120,000,000 F/A-22 Raptor stealth fighters
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74 F/A-18 Hornet attack fighters at $35mil each (threw that one in there for Huck)
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4 space shuttle missions
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1.7 million $1500 military bulletproof vests (a few more than our 1.4 million troops need)
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6.5 million $400 laptops for underprivileged children
What did the USA decide to spend $2.6 Billion on?
1 2006 election
10 comments:
So just appoint me king, I will take all that money and do some of that stuff. But I get to tell you what to do. I get control of your land (sooner or later) or gag your speech.
If you ask me, 2.6 billion has never been spent better..
If these guys really cared about what we think, want, or need, they would have a platform to run on and not try to burn down their opponents. It's sad, but we still need to vote.
Free society my friends. If you don't like it, leave. It is quite simple really.
Conservative Demo here:
It's shameful and pathetic. It's an opprobrious use of resources. Our two parties' operatives deserve to be shunned by polite society like the low-lives they are.
Having said that, I believe it is patently dumb to attempt the regulating of one asshole calling another asshole an asshole. Besides, here in America politicking is known as free speech and long may it live. Disgusting as some folks' speech mey be, it _is_ theirs to do.
That money doesn't disappear. It's what props up our embarrassingly bad local media outlets and thereby Paula Sands plastic surgeon, the surgeon's nanny, and so on. Besides, the spending is rewarded by votes. Change that and you've changed the system.
I wish the average voter did more research than looking at the party label or paying attention to one mudslinging ad. Even voting records can be completely distorted like when a politician votes down a good program because of pork attached. The answer to negative ads is more informed voters but how to achieve that is beyond me.
9:21, when there's that much money involved I would hardly say that's a free society. I'd say its a society that has a huge price if you want to be hold office.
And the people who donate billions of dollars of course expect something in return, leading to a lot of other problems.
wow... the good old 'if you dont like it leave' logic... it is only real idiots that bring out that one... how about, if you dont like me molesting little kids leave... or maybe, if you dont like me giving abortions leave... or possibly, if you dont like me pissing on the flag then leave... there is no true freedom. we must always regulate the freedoms of individuals to protect the freedom of the masses. so i will put it this way anon @921... if you dont like people complaining about frivilous political spending, then YOU'RE the one with the problem, and YOU can leave.
If you look carefully you willnotice that Whalen started with the stupid garbage first, then Braley felt the need to respond. Whalen's campaign is run by Victory and Grubbs - the King of negative right wing poop.
Thanks, QCI. Three times the number of Hornets than Raptors.
1. How much would we have spent if we scratched negative political ads?
2. How much would we have earned if we had invested that money in a S&P 500 Index fund in mid-June?
#2 Ans: an additional $400 million (before taxes).
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