Aug 13, 2010

No money for basic food & education... plenty for satellites

Priorities FAIL - We took money from the starving to keep teachers?  Yet have plenty for tech?
Did I mention that $12 billion will be stripped from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps

Anyone else see on the chart below somewhere else this money to provide basic food needs could have come from?



Yet we always have enough for the 'next generation of technology' PopSci hi-res satellite imaging technology is on the way, at least if the United States government has anything to say about it. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency has awarded satellite imaging firms GeoEye and DigitalGlobe, which provide images for Google and Microsoft among others, contracts upwards of $3.5 billion each to help them get the next wave of imaging technology into the sky.