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Did you know it costs millions of dollars for our educational system to change maps to make sure every reprint of the billions of maps it provides to our kids conforms to the federal guidelines?
Same for our every government organization. This bullshit is intended to divide the country over inconsequential bullshit and bankrupt the government itself.
The billionaires intentionally push for bullshit so they can say the system is broken. This is just another exhibit of that fact
There's a finite amount of money. For every dollar spent printing new maps is a dollar not spent on blowing up a school with 150 little girls in it. The cost of printing new maps is insignificant in the context of the federal budget. I wish it cost more.
Wrong. Very wrong. These costs will be taken from the budgets of the individual organizations who are paying for maps
The majority of these agencies are already underfunded.
Schools for example will not receive funds to update their course materials. They will have to take that money from somewhere else in their budget.
The private corporations that make these course materials will be delighted at a new federal standard that schools are low-key forced to comply with or risk losing federal funding
You are right that the military budget will not feel the change