Monday, February 13, 2006

Money (Not) Well Spent

(Full article linked above)

Discharging troops under the Pentagon's policy on gays cost $363.8 million over 10 years, almost double what the government concluded a year ago, a private report says.

The report, to be released Tuesday by a University of California Blue Ribbon Commission, questioned the methodology the Government Accountability Office used when it estimated that the financial impact of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy was at least $190.5 million.

Good God, and what the hell for? What else could we have spent that on over the last decade? Maybe more Arabic translators that could of helped us prevent 9/11? Oh wait, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" got rid of plenty of them just because they were gay! When will this idiotic policy stop?

2 comments:

Alexander Wolfe said...

But Nat-Wu, how can our soldiers concentrate on defending the country when another soldier may be surreptitiously checking them out in the shower?

Nat-Wu said...

Well, you know, that's a good point. A man can't trust another man with his life if he can't trust him with his ass.