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Seven hundred and fifty thousand gigs are now posted after two years, what people would do for five dollars.
It just celebrated its seventh anniversary, and after seven years, last year it delivered 530 million dollars' worth of sales to all those individuals who have been making those objects.
For the bargain price of a few thousand dollars, there are clinics in the U.S. that will give you one of these SPECT scans and use the image to help diagnose your problems.
Some of these clinics are pulling in tens of millions of dollars a year in business.
You have Democrats overwhelmingly supportive of raising the income tax on people who make 250,000 dollars a year, Republicans sort of against it, although if you break it out by income, Republicans who make less than 75,000 dollars a year like this idea.
So basically Republicans who make more than 250,000 dollars a year don't want to be taxed.
To give you just a couple of examples how fast this has happened, in the mid-'70s, Brazil declared, "We have no Aedes aegypti," and currently they spend about a billion dollars now a year trying to get rid of it, trying to control it, just one species of mosquito.
We have more than 100 translators covering 63 languages, and we spend millions of dollars just in our little hospital.
"We spend billions of dollars trying to understand the origins of the universe, while we still don't understand the conditions for a stable society, a functioning economy, or peace."
He wants two trillion dollars to protect us from terrorists next year, a two-trillion-dollar federal budget, which will land us back into deficit spending real fast.
But it's going to take them 10 years, at spending three million dollars a year, and even then, they claim they'll only have about 80 percent of them catalogued.
He told us that, in fact, two out of every three dollars of our petrodollars that we spent, the taxpayers' money, was wasted or stolen.
The entire project cost about 1.6 billion dollars, Trinidad and Tobago dollars, and in fact, we had a lot of bid-rigging and suspicious activity, corrupt activity took place.
And he's telling us that for the $1.6 billion cost of the project, one billion dollars has been traced to offshore bank accounts.
One billion dollars of our taxpayers' money has been located in offshore bank accounts.
Let me pause here to point out to you all that 24 billion dollars of our money has been spent on this.
And I asked the question, who was getting that three and a half billion dollars?
And the most famous case was what we came to call the Secret Scholarship Scandal, where in fact there was about 60 million dollars in government money that had been dispersed in a series of scholarships, and the scholarships hadn't been advertised, and so and so on and so on.
But you see, the question is this: If it's right and proper for us to use the Freedom of Information Act and to use the court to force a disclosure about 60 million dollars in public money, it must be right and proper for us to force a disclosure about 24 billion dollars.
Because after all, if you look at the context, 1.6 trillion dollars has been invested in the past eight years from the private sector globally, and every dollar represents a job, and where are those jobs going?
Congress putting four and a half billion dollars on the table?
And the goal was 100,000 dollars.
When one dollar's worth of green beans will give you 75 dollars' worth of produce.
You know, you want to make 50 million dollars selling violent video games to kids, go for it.
But you want to make half a million dollars trying to cure kids of malaria, and you're considered a parasite yourself.
And the median compensation for a Stanford MBA, with bonus, at the age of 38, was 400,000 dollars.
Meanwhile, for the same year, the average salary for the CEO of a $5 million-plus medical charity in the U.S. was 232,000 dollars, and for a hunger charity, 84,000 dollars.
In the 1990s, my company created the long-distance AIDSRide bicycle journeys, and the 60 mile-long breast cancer three-day walks, and over the course of nine years, we had 182,000 ordinary heroes participate, and they raised a total of 581 million dollars.
And if we tell the consumer brands, "You may advertise all the benefits of your product," but we tell charities, "You cannot advertise all the good that you do," where do we think the consumer dollars are going to flow?
We launched the AIDSRides with an initial investment of 50,000 dollars in risk capital.
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