Nope, Jon Stewart, $1 trillion wasn’t spent on Afghanistan schools at the expense of Baltimore.

Washington Post ^ | April 30, 2015 | Glenn Kessler

[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

[zzwhale]

why would a LIBTARD BOBBLEHEAD need F A C T S
when E M O T I O N and o p i n i o n are some much easier and readily available.......JUST MAKE STUFF UP.....
FACTS ARE THE BIGGEST ENEMY OF THE LIBTARD AGENDA
social programs will solve the nations ills
$55 TRILLION LATER AND THINGS ARE WORSE.......

LIBTARDS LIVE IN AN EMOTION CHARGED IMAGINARY WORLD THAT ONLY THEY CAN SOLVE

look at the black caucus when they tripped to venezuela and came back saying what a wonderful place it was and how we should model our economy and social programs after it....THESE PEOPLE ARE STUPID AND MENTALLY DEFICIENT..

They point to the Cuban medical system as what we should have...flying in the face of the FACT that only the top 3% get treatment from REAL DOCTORS and the other 97% are essentially without healthcare waiting forever for minimal treatment..... USEFUL IDIOTS

[zzwhale]

the MOST disturbing thing is not the stewart would make a stupid statement
but rather bobblhead idiots will accept it as FACT and quote him...

[Lumper20]

Agree. This is not the boyfriend who fathered the kid. I would never let a young man move into my house. The daughter needs a damn job.