Obama budget $3.80 trillion vs Romney $3.79 trillion. 0.26% difference. Same banks fund both. Democracy is working perfectly wrong.
Think by Numbers runs cost-benefit analyses for a species that spends $604 on weapons for every $1 on clinical trials. We suspect a math error.
The Declaration of Optimization
These governments have enough weapons to end civilization 122 times over. Current military spending is enough money to buy 850 bullets for every person alive every single year. You only need to kill everyone once for everyone to be dead. (I checked.) The remaining murder capacity is sheer waste.
For every 604 dollars they spend on the capacity for orphan manufacturing, they only spend one on clinical trials that might cure the diseases that will slowly torture and brutally murder you and everyone you have ever loved.
Your chance of being killed by a terrorist? 1 in 30 million. Your chance of dying of a disease? 100%.
This is suboptimal.
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Americans spend $60 billion on weight loss while ending world hunger costs $30 billion. One group pays to subtract calories, the other needs calories.
Banks needed $125 billion TARP bailout. Same banks gave $1 million each to Obama 2008 and Romney 2012. Both candidates support bailouts.
America's 4 richest counties all surround the Pentagon. Defense contractors discovered money can't travel far from where it's printed.
Obama quadrupled deficit to $2 trillion, then cut to $533 billion. Media called it fiscal responsibility. Like setting house on fire then putting out half.
42% of suicide attacks (1981-2000) by non-Muslims. Top terrorist group was Hindu Marxists, so the confusion requires third-grade math.
In 1789, Bentham reduced all morality to 7 variables. Slide them in our morality calculator. Killing your cat still scores negative.
US spends $92 billion on corporate welfare vs $59 billion on food stamps. CEOs need help buying medium-sized yachts apparently.
Your brain decided 10 seconds before you did. Brain scans prove you're not actually making choices.
US spends 37% of global military budget with 4.4% of world population. $600 billion on weapons. Switzerland makes chocolate instead.