EPTNavy "ghost ships" cost 300 million dollars - Page 5
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GreEny K
Germany7312 Posts
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Xiphos
Canada7507 Posts
Buy your own Navyship now! Only for $300 Million USD! | ||
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Scodia
United Kingdom588 Posts
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NKexquisite
United States911 Posts
On the other hand, I guarantee you there are some other really silly things the government spends money on that would blow your mind. For example, didn't a couple years back the government spend millions (billions?) of dollars to build a bridge to some island in Alaska that only like 10 people lived on? | ||
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KillerPlague
United States1386 Posts
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4Servy
Netherlands1542 Posts
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Good1
Russian Federation138 Posts
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InvalidID
United States1050 Posts
FINANCES (USD) Defense Budget: $692,000,000,000 (2011) Defense Budget: $698,000,000,000 (2010) Comparing government spending numbers year to year without adjusting for inflation and GDP growth is a misleading activity. As a percentage of GDP, in inflation adjusted figures, the defense budget is actually being drastically slashed, and a number of programs have been cut. | ||
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MethodSC
United States928 Posts
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Chargelot
2275 Posts
On July 26 2011 10:54 MethodSC wrote: It says clearly in the graph that it is $ in billion. It is $300 BILLION dollars of waste each year lol.... Honestly though it's about 600 billion in waste. Obama when will you keep your promise to bring the troops home? It's like Americans just don't understand anything. First off, what you saw was the entire budget. The "wasted" $300M was referring to this single project. "Bring the troops home" is like saying "Make a 6supply depot and 6 rax." In words you may understand, one does not simply walk out of Mordor. Whether you like it or not, "bringing the troops home" is a complicated process, and the fact of the matter is we'll probably have troops (not necessarily an entire army) in the middle east for the next hundred years. Let me say this, in the hopes that you'll finally understand. You are worth less than the security of the nation. I am worth less than the security of the nation. National security has the total worth of every life of every person living inside the country -- legal Americans or otherwise -- and the total net-worth of all infrastructure and businesses in the nation. Everything that makes this country more than just rocks and trees, and then even the rocks and trees, combined. Hundreds of billions of dollars is a lot of fucking money. But national security means a lot more. I couldn't ever hope to calculate the worth of a single life, never mind the worth of well over 310,000,000 lives. If you disagree, try imagining the nation with a $0.00 defense budget. Lets see how long it takes the world to follow natural human instinct. | ||
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OsoVega
926 Posts
On July 26 2011 10:54 MethodSC wrote: It says clearly in the graph that it is $ in billion. It is $300 BILLION dollars of waste each year lol.... Honestly though it's about 600 billion in waste. Obama when will you keep your promise to bring the troops home? From Afghanistan? I don't think he made a concrete promise for that and if he did the date has not past yet. | ||
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Z3kk
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GypsyBeast
Canada630 Posts
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Terranist
United States2496 Posts
On July 26 2011 13:27 GypsyBeast wrote: send them to canada we need a goddamn navy dont worry bro, we got your back in case anything goes down. AMERICUH! | ||
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MERLIN.
Canada546 Posts
On July 22 2011 10:21 gogogadgetflow wrote: Thanks for that analysis Einstein you can hand it off to the US SecDef in the morning. Oh wait. And what Rooster said. L O L Well, what can you expect? Americans and money... They never handled it well. Even while trying to be best friends with the jews from Israel. On a more serious note, its a shame that happened but if you really look at it, techonology doubles every 8 months... and the contractors kept defaulting, so yes it was a waste but you have to understand they weren't going in saying "lets waste 300 million" | ||
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Le BucheRON
Canada619 Posts
On July 26 2011 11:08 Chargelot wrote: It's like Americans just don't understand anything. First off, what you saw was the entire budget. The "wasted" $300M was referring to this single project. "Bring the troops home" is like saying "Make a 6supply depot and 6 rax." In words you may understand, one does not simply walk out of Mordor. Whether you like it or not, "bringing the troops home" is a complicated process, and the fact of the matter is we'll probably have troops (not necessarily an entire army) in the middle east for the next hundred years. Let me say this, in the hopes that you'll finally understand. You are worth less than the security of the nation. I am worth less than the security of the nation. National security has the total worth of every life of every person living inside the country -- legal Americans or otherwise -- and the total net-worth of all infrastructure and businesses in the nation. Everything that makes this country more than just rocks and trees, and then even the rocks and trees, combined. Hundreds of billions of dollars is a lot of fucking money. But national security means a lot more. I couldn't ever hope to calculate the worth of a single life, never mind the worth of well over 310,000,000 lives. If you disagree, try imagining the nation with a $0.00 defense budget. Lets see how long it takes the world to follow natural human instinct. Very well said. People need to get informed and think reasonably about what they would do if they were calling the shots, and taking on the responsibilities of caring for 300 million people. It is very easy to complain and give quick solutions when you don't walk a mile in someone else's shoes. | ||
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Kangg
United States128 Posts
I am going to go in the military, currently in ROTC, and have seen first hand how R&D works and let me just say, never expect anything to go as planned. Program im working on currently is delayed 2 years. was supposed to be done in two months but now done many many months later and now needed much more money to be put into it to staff the laborers, parts, etc. So please as much as i love going on forums to watch 12-16 year old kids talk about what they may know, and criticize the government, military, businesses, sports figures, etc. please put your self in those shoes and think from a less one sided approach. ( i do it to sometimes, just saying that it would make the country i love a better place.) | ||
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itkovian
United States1763 Posts
On July 22 2011 10:07 Razvy wrote: I am FOR government waste! What the fuck are we supposed to say? User was warned for this post Rofl 300 million seems to be a drop in the bucket compared to the trillions of dollars of debt we have. If you looked hard enough though, I bet you could find many more such wastes in our spending. So I guess it all adds up in the end | ||
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brain_
United States812 Posts
On July 22 2011 10:15 Crisium wrote: Ron Paul would never allow this. On July 22 2011 10:08 Cassel_Castle wrote: $1 per person, $2 per taxpayer. Focus on bigger things, like the Fed secretly loaning $16 trillion to failing corporations. http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=9e2a4ea8-6e73-4be2-a753-62060dcbb3c3 These posts brought a tear to my eye... Us Paulies have managed to penetrate TL, it appears. :D | ||
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PhiliBiRD
United States2643 Posts
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