Military Involvement in Libya Costs Taxpayers Millions

Estimates suggest each Tomahawk missile fired costs $1.1 million

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- 0.06 percent of President Obama's proposed $3.7-trillion dollar 2012 budget.

- 44 times bigger than the $50 million in funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that the House voted to cut last week

- 4.4 percent of Facebook's $41 billion estimated worth

- Nearly 11 times the 2011 payroll of the New York Yankees ($206,738,389), the highest-paid team in Major League Baseball

(Sources: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of State, Center for Responsive Politics, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, CIA Factbook, The White House, Bloomberg, ESPN)

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Muammar Qadhafi,
Libya,
War in Afghanistan (2001-),
Iraq war (2003-2011),
national security terrorism and the military

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As long as we have big private money in campaign politics, a wall street and (to big to fail)d investment banking/wall street government, short term politicians with only their next election, ego, power and financial gain in mind, only darwin's theories come to mind.

God luck to our children's children.

Allen barre of HI 5:33PM April 22, 2011

Where is the money coming from we are spending on this war in Libya? China we are borrowing big bucks from China to wage this war in Libya this has to end we can not afford to do this kind of thing anymore.

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Buck of WA 9:16PM March 31, 2011

but think about it they did attack us. we do need to at least get Gaddafi out of power but we definetly. i say that because like he could plan on attacking us later on if he stays in power and or country is not payign attention. although our country does not need another war. We already have our hands tied up with the other wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. it is a big waste of money for our country. If we do end up going to war our country will not have any money to even supprt our troops. so i do agree that it is a big waste of money. The only thing i do want to see is Gaddafi out of power and no war.

bbann of MA 3:32PM March 30, 2011

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