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U.S. Taxpayers Fund $6.8 Billion Of Greek Bailout

Jillian Bandes | May 06, 2010 11:29 AM

As Sen. Jim DeMint points out, the International Monetary Fund is sending $40 billion to bail out Greece, and 17% of IMF funding comes from the United States. That means we've just sent a cool $6.8 billion to bail out a socialist country who's citizens actually want their republic to swing more left.

I don't know about you, but I don't go to work in the morning to enable some economically backwards European nation to continue over-paying its government employees.