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Old 02-07-2010, 09:35 AM  
buyandsell
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2.5 million doesn't sound like much to the govt but they bought a Super Bowl ad for the 2010 Census. That same $2.5m could have bought 50 cheap $50,000 homes and housed 50 homeless families. I am sure they waste more each day but I doubt they will ever get their shit together.

If the waste were only $2.5m per day they could house 18,250 new families per year in $50,00 homes. Give them the home and a chance to make a go of it.

With the same $2.5m per day they could feed 833,333 people which is over 3 billion meals/yr.

I'd rather see them feed the 833,333 people than buy a Super Bowl ad.
I think the census is pretty important and anyways $2.5million is small change.

The basic facts are the only way the US is gonna balance its books is to stop spending billions on pointless wars, reduce spending on healthcare (medicare) and raise taxes.
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