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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

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I assume "Other purposes" is govt kickbacks to mining and gas companies ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Eww you guys are getting close to spending more on education than the military. Slippery slope.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It gets worse-

They spell defense with a c!

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Those goddamn commies need some freedumb!!!

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As mentioned by @[email protected] above:

This is just federal spending. Most educational spending is at the state level.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if you can't tell this is sarcasm, then you might not be best placed to be on the internet message boards, as you might misunderstand 99% of comments