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Re:Obama: "It is unacceptable that the U.S. ranks 15th in th... by jcl on Monday December 08, 2008 @02:53PM (#390276)
Not that I necessarily agree with their logic, but presumably they are estimating that the net economic benefit of the things created with the billion dollars exceeds a billion dollars.
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Re:Obama: "It is unacceptable that the U.S. ranks 15th in th... by Xichekolas on Monday December 08, 2008 @05:04PM (#390461)
Ah good point. For some reason I was reading as "a billion dollars will fund 40k people".
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