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Here's a math puzzle for you.

I'm going to give you two dollar amounts and two categories and you get to guess which dollar amount goes with which category.

Ready?

Good.

First, the $$$:

• $20.4 million dollars.
• $123 million dollars.       

Second, the categories:

• Total amount spent on Republican presidential campaign ads in Iowa during this campaign cycle.
• All federal spending on workforce development in Iowa in 2023.  This includes Youth programs, Adult programs, Dislocated Worker programs, Wagner-Peyser funding and discretionary grants to the state.

Yeah, you figured it out. The 123 million is the campaign money, and the 20.4 million is everything the federal government allocated for all Iowa workforce development programs.  Six time the amount of money was spent to get 110,000 Iowa Republican meatheads of their asses and over to the Meaningless, Forgone Conclusion Caucus on Monday than Iowa was given to spend on all employment programs statewide by the federal government.   

The advertising spending breaks down like so

• Pro-Haley ads:  $37M
• Pro-DeSantis ads:  $35M
• Pro-Trump ads: $18.3M
• All others ads:  $33.2M

The federal workforce development dollars granted to Iowa for the entire year of 2023 breaks down like so (FYI, "WIOA" stands for Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act" and "PY" means "Plan Year")

• WIOA Youth Activities State PY 2023 Allotments -- $5,652,031
• WIOA Adult Activities State PY 2023 Allotments -- $4,080,702
• WIOA Dislocated Worker Activities State PY 2023 Allotments -- $4,124,399
• Administration Emp. Service (Wagner-Peyser) PY 2023 PY 2023 Allotments -- $6,083,922
• Workforce Information Grants to States PY 2023 -- 440,864

This is obscene.

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