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Nope, Jon Stewart, $1 trillion wasn’t spent on Afghanistan schools at the expense of Baltimore.
Washington Post ^ | April 30, 2015 | Glenn Kessler

Posted on 05/09/2015 5:15:45 AM PDT by grundle

“If we are spending a trillion dollars to rebuild Afghanistan’s schools, we can’t, you know, put a little taste Baltimore’s way. It’s crazy.”

–Jon Stewart, “The Daily Show,” April 28, 2015

Using USAID’s ForeignAssistance.gov Web site, one can drill down to individual programs in Afghanistan year after year. For basic education in Afghanistan, the number is about $100 million annually. Adding higher education boosts the spending about $30 million a year. For instance, in 2012 and 2013, the total spent on education in Afghanistan was $128.6 million and $115.1 million, respectively.

Now let’s compare that to the federal spending for the city of Baltimore. According to city budget documents, the federal contribution to Baltimore schools was $184.8 million in 2012 and $169.3 million in 2013. (Most of the more than $1.2 billion budget comes from state and county funding sources.)

The contrast was even greater in 2011: $95 million for Afghanistan schools and $265 million for Baltimore schools. That’s because the 2009 stimulus bill bolstered funding for schools for several years.

Moreover, in the period the United States spent $104 billion overall on Afghanistan, the United States funneled about $400 billion to cities and states just for elementary and secondary education.

We sought a comment from a spokesman for Stewart but did not receive a reply.

Four Pinocchios


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1 posted on 05/09/2015 5:15:45 AM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

Jon and his ilk seem to be stretching the “truth” ever more VIGOROUSLY as the days go by.

oh for a national return to SANITY!!


2 posted on 05/09/2015 5:19:04 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: grundle

I thought this twit was retiring or something? Why is he still on?


3 posted on 05/09/2015 5:19:44 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: grundle

I wouldn’t spend a dime rebuilding either of them.


4 posted on 05/09/2015 5:20:54 AM PDT by umgud (No such thing as a moderate muslim.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

no, it’s gone.
Jon Stewart also said he was SURE all the money being spent on SNSP was not being abused.
When I dove a cab, I witnessed the most ingenious ways to trade it for just about anything. Especially drugs.
But “most studies” say it is seldom abused.
In other words, study written by a liberal white guy/gal who has no contact with those icky minorities that need their help so badly.
Puke


5 posted on 05/09/2015 5:23:50 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: Gaffer

Obama hasn’t chosen his replacement and then he or she has to be confirmed by the senate. Oh wait, that was Holder.


6 posted on 05/09/2015 5:27:54 AM PDT by Mercat (Release the HildeKraken)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Jon and his leftist brethren are really good at ignoring inconvenient facts, like the experiment in the Kansas City public school district, into which millions were poured, only to have to close schools decades later with absolutely no positive results in higher scores, etc. That’s just one of the most infamous of the great leftist experiments in gouging taxpayers for absolutely nothing. No matter how many times this experiment is repeated in various districts, the left continues to extort money from the productive to just do it again. That might be because it’s not really about helping poor little Jamal, it’s really about wealth redistribution from the productive to the leeches, after the leftist elites skim it really good. If that were not so, why would they continue to ignore the failures and keep calling for a repeat of the exact same failure?


7 posted on 05/09/2015 5:30:36 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Gaffer

This fake phony fraud doesn’t care if his statements are true, as long as he can smirk and throw a little hip slang into them (as in “a little taste”). Wow, how cool he isn’t.


8 posted on 05/09/2015 5:32:15 AM PDT by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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To: grundle
Which showed more improvement in literacy per tax $1 spent? Baltimore or Afghanistan?
9 posted on 05/09/2015 5:33:34 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: grundle

Maybe I’m being silly here, but sometimes when Stewart opens up his puerile, idiotic mouth, I think of the 1983 Twilight Zone movie part that featured the late Vic Morrow playing the bigot who got sent into situations involving SS guards, KKK men, and into the Vietnam jungles (yes, I know Morrow was killed along with those 2 kids filming this sequence).

What would I give to see Stewart sent to Russia about 1930, screaming his innocence as he is about to be marched off to a firing squad during Stalin’s purges or China in 1958 and he is being worked to death during the Great Leap Forward or Cambodia in 1976 and he is being sentenced to death for being too smart or too happy (those were death penalty offences under Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime).


10 posted on 05/09/2015 5:37:11 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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To: MeshugeMikey
Jon and his ilk seem to be stretching the “truth” ever more VIGOROUSLY as the days go by. oh for a national return to SANITY!!

True enough - what really torques me is that the truth that was used to debunk Stewart is enough to make one's blood boil too...

11 posted on 05/09/2015 5:37:28 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: mrsmel

follow the money?

jon appears to be engaging in :open” subterfuge!!


12 posted on 05/09/2015 5:38:25 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: grundle
If we are spending a trillion dollars to rebuild Afghanistan’s schools, we can’t, you know, put a little taste Baltimore’s way.

How about we let Maryland take care of Baltimore, and the Afghans take care of Afghanistan?

13 posted on 05/09/2015 5:42:22 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Those who have a so called diploma from Baltimore area high schools are ranked among the lowest in the nation in reading. Very few can even read at the 8th grade level.


14 posted on 05/09/2015 5:45:25 AM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Jon couldn’t find his ass with both hands.


15 posted on 05/09/2015 5:47:53 AM PDT by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: Rumplemeyer

That’s OK< his butt buddy rump rangers will find it for him.


16 posted on 05/09/2015 5:52:24 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: grundle

Larry Wilmore on the new Nightly Show is as big of a lying scumbag plus a race baiting turd to boot. Except for south park and futurama(reruns) there is not much good on leftist Comedy Central.


17 posted on 05/09/2015 5:53:45 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Lumper20

and most dont even know how to pronounce..the word CURSIVE....let alone read or write it..?


18 posted on 05/09/2015 5:54:59 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: grundle

I don’t really care where the trillion dollars was spent in Afghanistan. It’s enough to know that virtually all of it was a waste of money.


19 posted on 05/09/2015 5:55:02 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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It doesn’t matter what the truth is, you gotta build that meme!


20 posted on 05/09/2015 5:55:34 AM PDT by KC_Lion (This Millennial is for Cruz!)
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