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Post #350,477
by lincoln
11/11/11 5:27:44 PM
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New Guantánamo: the most expensive prison on earth

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- Guards get combat pay, just like troops in Afghanistan, without the risk of being blown up. Some commanders get to bring their families to this war-on-terror deployment. And each captive gets $38.45 worth of food a day.

The Pentagon detention center that started out in January 2002 as a collection of crude open-air cells guarded by Marines in a muddy tent city is today arguably the most expensive prison on earth, costing taxpayers $800,000 annually for each of the 171 captives by Obama administration reckoning.

That's more than 30 times the cost of keeping a captive on U.S. soil.



http://www.miamihera...st-expensive.html


Remember this the next time RepubliCANTS start whining about reducing the National Debt. Ask them why they've refused time and time again to allow these men to be transferred to a prison inside the US and close this place.




"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."

-- E.L. Doctorow
Post #350,504
by boxley
11/12/11 1:20:54 PM
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New close it, doesnt change much
any troops there will get combat pay because of the proximity to cuba all you will save is prisoner food and electric bill
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #350,505
by beepster
11/12/11 1:27:42 PM
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New Irrespective of the fact
that Obama signed the doc to keep it open and then Exec ordered continuation of tribunals.
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Post #350,533
by lincoln
11/13/11 6:47:08 PM
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New You're forgetting that fact
that literally every RepubliCANT in Congress wants to keep it open and refused to provide any funds to move Club Gitmo's occupants to a Supermax-level prison on the Illinoi-Iowa border.




"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."

-- E.L. Doctorow
Post #350,535
by beepster
11/13/11 8:19:20 PM
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New Makes it an easy excuse
to not lead.
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
     Guantánamo: the most expensive prison on earth - (lincoln) - (4) - Nov. 11, 2011, 05:27:44 PM EST
         close it, doesnt change much - (boxley) - (3) - Nov. 12, 2011, 01:20:54 PM EST
             Irrespective of the fact - (beepster) - (2) - Nov. 12, 2011, 01:27:42 PM EST
                 You're forgetting that fact - (lincoln) - (1) - Nov. 13, 2011, 06:47:08 PM EST
                     Makes it an easy excuse - (beepster) - Nov. 13, 2011, 08:19:20 PM EST

I never trusted P.E. teachers, I'll tell you that.
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