Cost ending world hunger: $30 billion per year. (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
NASA = The Tower of Babel.
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from the above FAO article:
in 2006 the world spent US$1 200 billion on arms while food wasted in a single country could cost US$100 billion and excess consumption by the world’s obese amounted to US$20 billion.and consider this:
Cost of the 2009 U.S. "bailout": $7.5 trillion. (ABC) That's 200 times the amount needed to end world hunger.
3 comments:
3 responses:
1) That 806 billion figure is the total cost of NASA in its history. Its 2010 budget is 18.69 billion-still a lot (http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/may/HQ_09-102_FY2010Budget.html)
2) I will take more than money to fix the problem. Notice, I said more than money, not less than it. That 30b. would have to be spent the right way.
3) I agree with your point, but don't be so hard on NASA. They do good things too.
Good points, Chris. Thank you. Especially #2 is a helpful reminder.
As to #3, I guess that's the point here: to be hard on NASA.
Now, I subscribe to Nat. Geo. Mag. and love Hubble pictures and so forth, but I can't help but wonder if all this money couldn't be better spent. Wasn't NASA etc., started for the USA to "make a name for ourselves"?
Are there stupid-er wastes of money in the USgov annual budget? Absolutely. But NASA, in my opinion, consistently ranks near the top.
I've heard that $30 bil figure before and had similar thoughts...
especially when the bailouts were big news.
thanks for posting this.
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