Thanks go to Arizona senators John McCain and Jeff Flake for their report on how the Department of Defense spent $10.4 million on marketing campaigns with major league sports teams for patriotism-themed activities.
"Taxpayer-funded paid patriotism,"McCain and Flake called it.
An example of such activities is holding salutes to the national guard.
Considering that sports franchises usually are very profitable, that they plug into such taxpayer funds is troubling. That they receive such government funding underscores how seemingly everyone, sooner or later, gets a free dime from our federal government. It also should make us consider that we have perhaps become jaded to getting the money, not even thinking it wrong, for surely the sports teams did not think it wrong.
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