495,930 People with Health Care OR
2,455,230 Homes with Renewable Electricity OR
36,168 Public Safety Officers OR
28,333 Music and Arts Teachers OR
399,014 Scholarships for University Students OR
112 New Elementary Schools OR
4,617 Affordable Housing Units OR
497,457 Children with Health Care OR
197,000 Head Start Places for Children OR
28,333 Elementary School Teachers OR
21,354 Port Container Inspectors
Some more interesting facts and figures, this time from Adbusters magazine:
-- 3,000 Terrorism
-- 96,000 Homicide
--- 102,000 Drunk Driving
---- 180,000 Suicide
----- 228,000 Second Hand Smoke
-------------- 436, 890 Diabetes
--------------------------2,311,134 Cancer*
---------------------------------2,652,000 Smoking Related
-----------------------------------------------------3,119,142 Heart Disease*
* Excluding smoking related deaths
Pop quiz time: What do $500,000 for a "Virtual Herbarium" in New York, $100,000 to celebrate Lake Champlain's quadricentennial, and $50,000 for an ice center in Utah, all have in common?
I doubt you guessed it (something like this should be on the nightly news, shouldn't it?) - but the answer is: These are Congressional pet projects which were given money over children's health care! That's right ladies and gentlemen, our elected leaders really do represent us. Don't polls show 56% of Americans want an ice center in Utah?
More on lies and money: this story, in which the White House redacted six full pages of research on climate change only goes to show you: the Bush Administration cannot be trusted! It's been long known, through their own words and actions, that Bush and his oil and gas buddies would lose profits if they had to take action on global climate change. That is why the auto industry so heavily lobbies Congress to not make car emission standards higher - they'll lose profits! Who cares if we're killing life and helping make species extinct, who cares if the seas will rise flooding major cities or fires will tear across densely populated areas? What matters most is the bottom line: profits. Profits über alles!
If the Bush Administration will go to blatant lengths to hide this information from you (information that may very soon save our lives - or at least help us prepare for disaster) what else are they hiding from us?
Some more interesting facts and figures, this time from Adbusters magazine:
The Real Threat to Americans
(est. number of deaths 2001-2005)
(est. number of deaths 2001-2005)
-- 3,000 Terrorism
-- 96,000 Homicide
--- 102,000 Drunk Driving
---- 180,000 Suicide
----- 228,000 Second Hand Smoke
-------------- 436, 890 Diabetes
--------------------------2,311,134 Cancer*
---------------------------------2,652,000 Smoking Related
-----------------------------------------------------3,119,142 Heart Disease*
* Excluding smoking related deaths
Pop quiz time: What do $500,000 for a "Virtual Herbarium" in New York, $100,000 to celebrate Lake Champlain's quadricentennial, and $50,000 for an ice center in Utah, all have in common?
I doubt you guessed it (something like this should be on the nightly news, shouldn't it?) - but the answer is: These are Congressional pet projects which were given money over children's health care! That's right ladies and gentlemen, our elected leaders really do represent us. Don't polls show 56% of Americans want an ice center in Utah?
More on lies and money: this story, in which the White House redacted six full pages of research on climate change only goes to show you: the Bush Administration cannot be trusted! It's been long known, through their own words and actions, that Bush and his oil and gas buddies would lose profits if they had to take action on global climate change. That is why the auto industry so heavily lobbies Congress to not make car emission standards higher - they'll lose profits! Who cares if we're killing life and helping make species extinct, who cares if the seas will rise flooding major cities or fires will tear across densely populated areas? What matters most is the bottom line: profits. Profits über alles!
If the Bush Administration will go to blatant lengths to hide this information from you (information that may very soon save our lives - or at least help us prepare for disaster) what else are they hiding from us?
