The cost of over-reach, and imperial assholery:
As lawmakers on Congress’ deficit reduction super committee look for places to cut the federal budget ahead of their upcoming deadline, they may want to look at the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The facility is “arguably the most expensive prison on earth,” according to a new report from the Miami Herald. With a budget of $139 million last year to house just 171 detainees, it costs more than $800,000 to keep each prisoner for a year — more than 30 times the average cost of a traditional prison.
We have a President who is too meek to close it...but at least wants to, against a Party that wants to expand it while demanding the middle class and poor have a virtual Gitmo of poverty built around them while they call it a gated community.
Rising Hegemon
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We have a President who is too meek to close it...but at least wants to...
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WTF do you actually mean by "too meek"? Too meek to ignore Congress? Too meek to act like some action movie hero who plays by his own rules? Too meek like Lincoln was too meek to prevent the Civil War by freeing the slaves by fiat and telling the South to "deal with it"?
Oh, if only he were bold, like the Michael Bay version of FDR, who stood up out of his wheelchair to show how determined he was. Instead of being like the real FDR, who wouldn't support anti-lynching legislation because he couldn't afford to alienate the Dixiecrats.
yes. the cockblocked president. because publikkklans are than meally, chickenshit 'loyal' opposition are AFRAID of letting them inside our boarders. that is a shit lot of fruitloops.
policomic, Obama could have use his extra special anti-terrorism powers to close Gitmo.
Without even violating the law, as he did when he ignored the War Powers Act with regards to Libya.
You'd have rightly condemned most of what this corrupt Administration has done if G.W. Bush was doing it.
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i am sure there were other reasons not to do it that way. not that publikkklans were inching left at all.
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