We may have funded DHS (for now), but the Coast Guard still has a funding problem. Despite the fact that it travels all over the world saving lives, stopping smugglers, and improving the safety of the seas, the Coast Guard still operates on less money than the New York City subway and with fewer people than Disney World. Here’s a couple charts to put the small size of the Coast Guard in context.
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Things with more people than the Coast Guard / by The Claw of Knowledge / Even though we’ve funded the Department of Homeland Security (for now), the Coast Guard remains sorely underfunded and undermanned. Many of its most-relied on ships predate the moon landing, while its manpower remains below that of Disney World. Since it’s hard to put the numbers in context, here’s 10 things that have more people than the Coast Guard. / IMDB users who rated ‘Aeon Flux’ – 103,300 / Visitors to Wisconsin’s Farm Tech Conference – 70,000 / Workers at Disney World – 66,000 / Google employees worldwide – 53,600 / Population of Faroe Islands (Arctic) – 48,600 / Coast Guard personnel (active duty + reserves) – 46,000 / Students at Michigan State University – 50,100 / Visitors to Cape Meares Lighthouse in 2014 – 53,400 / Capacity of Seahawks’ stadium – 67,000 / U.S. citizens living in China – 71,500 / Inmates in California prison system – 132,785