Let’s put this in perspective.

$30 million dollars is enough to provide a college education for up to 1,500 students who might otherwise not be able to afford it. It is enough to provide housing for 6,000 homeless people for up to a year. It is enough to buy 5.4 million starving children each a happy meal from McDonalds. If put into the economy, it is enough to stimulate an extra 10,000 jobs.

Instead, the money is being used to help out an industry which is showing absolutely no signs of being hurt by the recession. Tax dollars paid from the hard earned money of millions of working class Americans going, not to build roads or pay firefighters, but to subsidize already rich and powerful film and music executives.

If you are American and reading this, you paid for it. You still don’t have health care, but those sneaky pirates won’t be stealing pennies from the jars of the rich and famous anymore. Actually, that is not exactly the truth. They still will be. This pile of money isn’t aimed at ending piracy altogether. Just making it a little harder to do. If it even does that much, which is a big ‘if’.

In the end, this reporter believes all we will be left with is 30 million reasons to elect new Congressman.

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