Where did I say that spending millions was ok, 'bro'?
You and I (and all of us here) know that government spends money wa-a-a-ay too easily. We don't need to look at Uvalde to see evidence of that.
That doesn't change the fact that the article/image is off by a factor of more than 1200. And not 1200 percent, but 1200 times the actual amount.
Whoever wrote the article was either very sloppy, or (perhaps) intentionally trying to 'generate false outrage' (in order to keep us from using resources to find an actual problem).
Sorry. I had seen the article that this picture comes from (I had responded to one of the sticky posts that refers to it.)
It's the last image in this article: (Note: I do not recommend this article - it is flawed in at least this image, and once I spot a 1000x error, I tend to ignore the source after that.)
I went to the article and went right to very the last image --- amazingly huge numbers.
So, I went to the usaspending.gov site myself, and you only see these huge numbers if you don't choose any filters.
That means the 'huge numbers' are total spending, and not for Uvalde. He typed the city into the sidebar, but he never added the filter.
That's either stupid, or deceptive.
Either way, it's silly to trust (or even read) the rest of the article when this part is off by orders of magnitude.
Yea this was my finding also.
Where did I say that spending millions was ok, 'bro'?
You and I (and all of us here) know that government spends money wa-a-a-ay too easily. We don't need to look at Uvalde to see evidence of that.
That doesn't change the fact that the article/image is off by a factor of more than 1200. And not 1200 percent, but 1200 times the actual amount.
Whoever wrote the article was either very sloppy, or (perhaps) intentionally trying to 'generate false outrage' (in order to keep us from using resources to find an actual problem).
Except that I did add the filters, and while funding was higher in 2021 than 2022, I still got $44 million.
The article shows $54 BILLION. That's more than 1200 TIMES $44 million.
The article?? I didn’t link to an article???
Sorry. I had seen the article that this picture comes from (I had responded to one of the sticky posts that refers to it.)
It's the last image in this article: (Note: I do not recommend this article - it is flawed in at least this image, and once I spot a 1000x error, I tend to ignore the source after that.)
https://politicalmoonshine.com/2022/05/27/everything-is-wrong-nothing-is-right-and-uvalde-is-the-latest-perfect-example/
That should have been more obvious in the title, TBH.
I will try to reupload with something clearer when I am not on mobile.