What will a HALF BILLION DOLLARS in Political TV Ads Buy You? [163]
MONEY CHANGERS
THIS EVENING, NBC NEWS PRESENTED THIS DISHEARTENING information regarding what Americans apparently find important. As of today, August 16, 2012, according to their estimate, the Romney and Obama campaigns, and their associated PACs, have spent $512 million on political TV ads. Imagine, a half a billion dollars wasted on mostly lies, half-truths, invective, hyperbole, and character assassination targeted at the remaining 5% of voters who have not made up their mind already in six or seven swing states. Simply unbelievable, isn't it.
The point the NBC news achor was making was what COULD that $512,000,000 bought? The NBC analyst came up with the following:
- 9.2 million malnourished kids for 50 days or, as I would prefer looking at it, 1.3 million malnourished kids for a year, or
- immunize 29millioin children for LIFE, or
- provide clean water for 500 million kids for 40 days, or, alternatively, provide 54 million kids clean water for a year, or
- buy 166 million anti-malarial mosquito nets
Yet, here we are letting all of this money being thrown into the toilet for a broken political process and in the name of a concept that a non-human corporation (or union) has a 1st Amendment right to have the expenditure of money considered speech and therefore begin the lobbying/bribing process long before a candidate is every elected to office.
Anyway, I thought I would get this posted before I forgot about it and to get at least one of you riled up.
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