Taxpayer Calculator: Indian reality show, California wine tours backed by USDA funds

FOX News ^ | June 14, 2012 | By John Brandt

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Another MAP recipient, the Cotton Council International, received $20 million in 2011 to produce and promote Let’s Design, an Indian reality television show where contestants make clothing out of cotton. The council has reaped more than $169 million in the last decade.

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We thought PBS was bilking the taxpayer but now it's reality shows in India.

[Missouri gal]

More evidence that the goal is simply to empty our national resources as fast as possible. How is this not treason???

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It’s treason. He just said we weren’t going to bail out the EU but don’t hold your breath.

[BfloGuy]

He just said we weren’t going to bail out the EU but don’t hold your breath.

Of course, we're going to bail out the EU. But since the money will be printed instead of taxed, he can pretend it's free.