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U.S. Defense Budget, Explained with OREO Cookies (Flash ver)

submitted by firefly

1 decade 7 years 1 month 2 weeks ago

Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry's ice cream fame) is now a spokesman for truemajority.org. Here he gives a demonstration of how U.S. government spending is "out of whack" using a simple "cookie graph." Could money be better spent on more pressing issues such as education, health care, and energy conservation?

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This is a re-post, but as my original link is dead, and I am unable to find a replacemnt (thank you very much Tavis Smiley lawyer-goons! ) I'll just have to use this one.
Those of you who remember the original, it's basically the same thing. Same presenter, same ideas, just different format.

If Nabisco is part of the 'military industrial complex", this may be disappeared. Or maybe the Oreos will become Paul Newman Sandwich Cookies.

BOOM! Some of those politicians need to watch this, its like sesame street for grown ups!

sroemerm says...

Our schools don't work because they don't have enough money? What a bunch of crap.

why on EARTH did ant downvote this??? Some things are just totally beyond me...

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This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by eric3579.

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