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Give me $600,000 and I'll double that 2 million likes to 4 million likes. Does that add any value for end users of the State Dept. (i.e. taxpayers)?

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end users of the State Dept. (i.e. taxpayers

Given that the State Department is the authority that issues visas for travel to the US, operates embassies and so on, a lot of the end users are not taxpayers.

Who else is paying them to promote themselves? It isn't the immigrants. So yes, that makes the tax payer the benefactor of their operations. So how does the State Department benefit tax payers by having friends on FB?

Why does anyone care about fans/friends on facebook. Such a waste of our societies capitol.

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