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Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 01:50 PM Original message |
Libyan war will soon cost the US $1 billion with the establishment and maintenance of a no-fly zone |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
1. A billion would buy a lot of |
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zbdent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 02:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. pshaw ... |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 02:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. There's been no COLA because low inflation levels haven't warranted one. |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 02:52 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Food inflation alone was 2.1% over the last year |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 02:59 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Do you have a source? I believe the overall inflation rate was too low to trigger a COLA. |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 03:05 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. I was wrong, it was actually 2.3% |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 03:08 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. That's from this month. I was speaking of 2009 and 2010 in reference to your original comment. |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 03:17 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Over the last 12 months, |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 03:55 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. So? Are you listening to what I'm saying? Do you think the government estimate is incorrect? |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 04:52 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Do you think the government estimate is incorrect? |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 05:03 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. That's subjective opinion. I have yet to see any proof from credible economists to back you up.. |
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tcaudilllg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
2. It would pay the salaries of 20,000 teachers. n/t |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
3. CNN didn't give a flying fuck what Iraq and Afghanistan cost. |
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AtomicKitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
4. The US will not be maintaining the no-fly zone. That task is being handed off to NATO. |
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Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 02:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. The US still has to pay the cost of using its own ships, weapons and planes... |
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AtomicKitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 02:50 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. It will be a shared cost through NATO. |
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Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 03:01 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Do you have a link that shows how other countries will be subsidizing the use of US resources? |
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AtomicKitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 03:45 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Shared cost yet to be determined by NATO Common Funds Burdensharing. |
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Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 06:19 PM Response to Reply #20 |
27. And surely you'll PM me the link or post an update here.... |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 03:22 PM Response to Reply #9 |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
5. Quite a lot of money to protect a rebel uprising in a sovereign country. |
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timo (890 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
10. not to worry |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
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RMBEBBP (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
15. Geez |
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Runework (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
22. Goin' the way of Rome |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
23. K & R. n/t |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-23-11 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
26. So what? What is the moral price of $tanding by counting $$ while allowing genocide to occur? |
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