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Wow Barack Obama and Mitt Romney spent a combined
$2.38 billion to get elected to a job that pays a lousy $400,000 a year or a total of $1.6 million for the 4 year term.
I suspect that means the system is corrupt to the core and the winner, along with the special interest groups that helped the winner get elected will easily get back the money they spent thru kickbacks and government pork contracts. The $2.38 billion Obama and Romney spent is almost 1,500 times what the job of President pays for the 4 year term. E.J. Montini | Arizona Republic Columnist Our obscene election By EJ MONTINI Fri, Dec 07 2012 3:46 PM The Washington Post has produced a chart showing how President Barack Obama spent $1.2 billion and Mitt Romney spent $1.18 billion on the last election. That’s right. A combined $2.38 billion. With a “B.” If the two of them had agreed to use $1 billion from their combined war chests for something other than smearing the other guy can you imagine the good they could have done? Cancer research. College scholarships. Housing. Food. Who knows what else? I read that if you estimate the average home price in the United States at around $270,000 you could buy 3,703 houses with a billion dollars. Think how far that could go in hurricane ravaged New York. A billion dollars represents something close to the annual income of 25,000 hardworking, middle class Americans. And these two men spend $2.38 billion. On an election. Many years ago U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, in trying to describe obscenity, said, "I know it when I see it.” Well, we’ve just seen it. |