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 * link: URL::http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/stossel/blog/2011/06/11/other-peoples-money
 * author: author::John Stossel
 * source: company::Fox News
 * title: title::Other People's Money
 * date: when posted::2011-06-11
 * summary: summary::Fox's John Stossel criticizes politicians for being careless with "other people's money". To his credit, the $700 billion military budget is the second item he mentions ("growing entitlements" are, of course, first), but then he immediately proceeds to ridicule a series of absolutely trivial expenditures, the largest of which is 0.0002% of the $700B originally mentioned and most of which are probably quite worthwhile investments of public money (including the bicycle helmets, which probably save money overall).
 * topics: topic::other people's money
 * example of: example of::bad argument example of::Proxmiring