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19 hours ago ago from Do Wacka Do
An extremely reassuring chart On Tomdispatch, Jo Comerford of the National Priorities Project lays out the costs of the Afghan and it comes to, oh, $57,077.60 a MINUTE! Some of the more jaw-dropping facts: [A]dd up the yearly salary of a Marine from Camp Lejeune with four years of service, throw in his or her housing allowance, additional pay for dependents, and bonus pay for hazardous duty, imminent danger, and family ...
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14 hours ago ago from ELP Defens(c)e Blog
Well, the Pentagon estimates that the costs of the two wars will cost $163B for FY 2011. If approved, it will bring the total cost for nation building on useless dirt to $1.2T. It reminds me of this graphic I made a few years back. Got a despot that needs to be whipped back into line or removed? Have to brief the world? Need to a briefing? Then you need MICROSPOOF POWELLPOINT 2003 . It comes with ready made templates: -Remove ...
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10 hours ago ago from MyDD :: Direct Democracy for People-Powered Politics
Home Diaries Breaking Blue E-Wire 2008 Dr. Jeffrey Sachs: A Better Strategy for Afghanistan by ralphlopez , Fri Dec 18, 2009 at 02:44:17 PM EST Named one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World", famed economist Sachs needs little introduction. As a colleague he has asked me to cross-post this article, in which he calls urgently for the alternative to the escalation, saying: "We will spend around $100 billion ...
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5 hours ago ago from IL MONDO DI WOLFIE
The Defense Department is preparing a $163.1 billion war-cost spending request for fiscal year 2011, a previously unreported figure that would finance the continuing drawdown of U.S. units from Iraq and sustain the surge of American forces in Afghanistan, according to Pentagon officials. If approved by Congress, the FY-11 “overseas contingency operations” spending proposal would bring the price tag for the wars in Afghanistan, which ...
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23 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
WASHINGTON Must-pass legislation that wraps up the bulk of this year's remaining congressional agenda except for health care easily cleared a key Senate hurdle early Friday morning. Anchored by a $626 billion Pentagon funding bill, the measure also carries short-term extensions of unemployment benefits, highway and transit funding, key pieces of the anti-terror Patriot Act and a measure to save doctors from shouldering a 21 percent cut in ...
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21 hours ago ago from BloggingStocks
An audit memorandum prepared by Senator Claire McCaskill's staff puts the amount of money spent on reconstruction and redevelopment contracts in Afghanistan at $23 billion, with $1 billion of it waste. So, was $22 billion well spent? The funds have been spent on a variety of projects, including the construction of roads and the development of power generation utilities to agriculture, urban development and water sanitation. The memo was ...
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19 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Panel says Hawaii revenues will be a bit worse HONOLULU (AP) -- The state's revenue picture is still dreary but there is light at the end of the tunnel, a panel of Hawaii economists said. The state Council on Revenues, at its quarterly meeting Thursday, voted to change its estimated decrease in state revenues for the remainder of the fiscal year that ends June 30 from 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent. In other words, the council believes the ...
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