NPR annual funding from the US Government: ~ $14 million (Source: CBS News)
The cost of Iraq and Afghanistan War in 2011: $192.3 billion (Source: US Department of Defense)
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan cost 527 million dollars a day. Annual funding to NPR is the equivalent of 38 minutes of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Long story short, this is everything wrong with America.
‘Fiscal conservatives’ want to defund NPR (less than $10 million dollars per year), but won’t even talk about defunding or cutting spending on the war in Afghanistan, which has cost over $445.1 billion to date.
RIP, Nathaniel Dwayne Hale (August 19, 1969 – March 15, 2011)
Parents looked at the body of their daughter, whom they found in the vehicle of a driving school in Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture on Saturday.
A transcript of my favorite part:
America’s rich aren’t giving you money, they’re taking your money. Between the years 1980 and 2005 80% of all new income generated in this country went to the richest 1%. Let me put that in terms that even you fat-ass teabaggers, I’m sorry, can understand.
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