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I think it's a a worthwhile exercise you know this is a question that a lot of
progressive hosts have brought up in the past coupla days
but we haven't really a gone into all the the nooks and crannies
at a weird phrase but about a while ago
we have really got into all the nooks and crannies as to how much it would
cost
if we were to take military action in Syria so get this
the first few weeks
I love by the operation in Libya is a good
measure that we can use to try to determine how much it would cost if we
were to go to Syria
so that cost about six hundred million dollars
it was $340 million that went to munitions
each tomahawk land attack missile costs 1.4 million dollars
I remember that's what we're thinking about using in Syria
now is an amazing and I got a lot more information your religious but
you know reflect on that for a second each missile cost 1.4 million dollars
for christ sake if used by 1.4 million dollars on a home it's like a ***
mention
I mean obviously depending on where you live in the most expensive counties
would be really nice house not to mention
but no other place in America to God amen *** but one missile
so our tax dollars go to finding these missile that
each one is like the cost to mention that ridiculous can we find a more
cost-effective way in creating missiles
also the navy's USS
nimitz and other vessels were scheduled to return home from deployment
but they have now been ordered to remain within striking distance of the country
at an estimated cost of $25 million dollars per week
flush that down the toilet now all this is in other context I love
a circular defense Hagel saying are only cause tens of millions of dollars if we
were to
attack Jerry are you getting
best 10 missiles but not even when you factor in how much it cost for the
planes and the pilots flying a plane and the mission a cost to create image in
the first place
are also the US fires
missiles and no ships engage in combat it'll cost $30 million dollars per week
refueling tankers would also likely be needed which costs
9.3 million dollars in the Libya operation
for more than a hundred hours a flight training the rebels which is another
idea they've been throwing around
is that worked out just fantastic when we trained the mujahedeen
to fight the Soviet Union in the 1980s and they became the Taliban and al Qaeda
and for us
with our own weapons get it worked out well anyway I will cost $500 million
dollars a year
and quote several thousand troops
would be needed for that they estimate there's also
up a no fly zone would cost $1 billion dollars a month
CRN get have these cost like why would even cost money
to have a no fly zone while reading cost money a billion dollars nonetheless
to create no-fly zone and keep in mind these are all
options and possibilities but in terms of a concrete
prediction for the overall cost Todd Harrison who is a defense budget analyst
at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
said quote if you include the replacement cost
a munitions it could cost up to a billion dollars
so a small-scale attack
on Syria could cost up to a billion dollars
now isn't it funny how well whenever we have a conversation about
you doing any government action at home
you have conservatives but also but democrats say
do well how much is it going to cost what we need to weigh into account got
you know
we've been spending so much money on the deficit is so I in the national debt is
so I'm we can afford it we have already this
we have to sequester the sequester was over a trillion dollars in cuts
funny how we care so deeply about the deficit in the national debt
when the things that they wanted to cut were for you and me but when it comes to
starting a war with the country didn't attack us
that only nine percent of the country wants to get involved with they want to
bring up the cost
they don't care about that billion dollars like billion dollars what we
find them loose change i mean that's in
you know it's in my couch cushion right now are you talking about nothing
now here's another good question
with them bill you know what else can you do with a billion dollars
made a billion dollars a lot of money right well here just a couple things
you could buy groceries for two hundred and fifty thousand families of four
yet that would seem to be a better use of the money in my opinion
you can get a year's worth I love
but daily Disney I know words kids to go to Disney
lane for a year for 77,000 285 fans
they could enjoy all sixty rides at Disneyland
plus a hamburger launch and requisite Mickey Mouse ears
all of that for a a billion dollars you get two years worth of
aids research at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta
or a year's worth of the drug easy teeny for 330,000
***-infected people are you be at 1.25 billion doses of vaccines
reaching 29 percent on the world's children
you can get $20 million malaria treatments over sixty billion water
purification tablets
which is desperately needed there so many people around the world
are in third world countries they do not have access to clean water
you get $60 billion war purification tablets
I mean you want to talk about saving lives that would be in on raising
act that would save so many lives but all those things of course
they're not even in the conversation and
hey what's a better way to spend a billion dollars well either we bomb the
*** out of something
or we wasted on something else we would never use it for something that makes
sense
like saving people's lives in purifying water and buying
needed pharmaceuticals around the world please that's stupid