Cost of 110 Cruise Missiles fired in 1 Hour = More than 5 Years of NPR Funding.

[onehandle]

U.S. fires 110 tomahawk missiles, each costs $569,000. That's more than 5 years of NPR federal funding in less than an hour.

http://twitter.com/stacyherbert/status/49217342873407489


On edit: I did not post this to criticize this military action. I am just sharing someone else's observation.

[Buzz Clik]

1. How many NPR's could we fund with the USDA food inspection budget?

I don't like your false analogy much.

[yurbud]

4. do you think our and Europe's motives are purely humanitarian?

[Buzz Clik]

7. Yes.

[SolutionisSolidarity]

20. A true believer.

Edit: perhaps this was worded too personally.

[Buzz Clik]

22. Aren't you cute.

[SolutionisSolidarity]

25. Adorable, actually.

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[SolutionisSolidarity]

29. No, I'm just a bit grumpy watching everything play out so predictably.

I don't actually bear you any ill will; I just find your naivete sad. We're going to spend billions of dollars because our hearts bleed so damn hard for the suffering people of Libya, give me a break. If this were George Bush, I doubt you would be so charitable.

[SlipperySlope]

15. No.

No. I think there is also the political message that would have been implicitly sent if we had done nothing, and were unwilling to let that message be sent through our inactivity.

I certainly hope that France and the UK do all the "heavy lifting" here and we are limited to a support role.

[golfguru]

23. If they were we would have invaded Rwanda full scale

Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed in Rwanda.
The humanitarianism took a holiday during that period.

[femmocrat]

2. There is always enough money for war.

But never for the arts.

[Lefta Dissenter]

3. Wow. That's all I have to say about that. (n/t)

:(

[Bluerthanblue]

5. pretty fucking sad that money is in this equation at all. Being

against the use of cruise missiles should stand on it's own, without having to try and tie it into commercialism.

I really like NPR- but it has nothing to do with bombing Libya.

:shrug:

[Autumn]

6. Money for war. Plenty of stuff to be cut

at home.K/R

[DrToast]

8. So you want to launch NPR at Libya?

[Exilednight]

16. We'd probably have better results. n/t

[William769]

9. If people are pissed off over cruise missiles being used to save lives

over funding for NPR. I'll just stop right there, anything I try to write would surely get my post deleted.

[Exilednight]

17. Firing missiles do not save lives - THEY TAKE THEM. n/t

[William769]

19. Fine give gaddafi free reign to murder his own people and lets see which one loses more lives.

Just so you can have your fucking NPR.

[Exilednight]

24. My opposition to our attack has nothing to do with funding. It has everything to do with

what is right and wrong. Many people on here refuse to acknowledge the fact that Saudi Arabia and the UAE are sending troops into Bahrain, but nobody is asking why they aren't doing more in Libya.

Maybe it hurts peoples heads to think of things, or maybe they just aren't able to think in geopolitical terms. Whatever the reason, they need to pull their heads out of their asses and start thinking, because there is no way this turns out well.

Do you really believe we are going to save lives? Do you think we oust the Colonel?

[Lucinda]

10. Wow.

Puts it in perspective.
Do we need to be there?
If so, do we need to fire that many?
etc
etc
etc

[vaberella]

11. This is US and BRITISH missiles TOGETHER! Not just the US. n/t

[dkf]

12. NPR is about politics, not spending.

It always has been.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

13. GOD BLESS OUR VALIENT BUTTON PUSHERS

MY THEY ALL GET CRAPPLE TUNNELL SINDROM :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks: :yoiks:

[zeemike]

14. Yes but the Missiles make a big BANG when they go off.

With lots of smoke and fire.....you can't expect to get that from NPR.
Besides it pumps money into the economy with all the destruction.

[Exilednight]

18. I've heard a few bangs go off on NPR. Personally, I prefer PRI. n/t

[vroomvroom]

21. Geez, Someone needs to outsource Missile Manufacturing to China, pronto!

[Exilednight]

27. Sadly, some of the parts for missiles are outsourced .....

break anything down far enough and one will quickly realize that many things we assemble have parts or require resources that our only available in other countries.

[Canuckistanian]

28. And how many years of LIHEAP is that?

Probably something like 10 years.

[neverforget]

30. Always money for war. It's how the MIC lives.

[Vinca]

31. I've been watching little news the past few days, but it sure seems

the Republicans are remaining silent. I suppose they're all in the back room masturbating about war and killing.

[mascarax]

32. They cost $569K in 1991 (Gulf War) - price is the same? 20 years later?!

I've seen the references to $500K=$569K in the last 24 hours.
I think they cost more. We'll see how long it takes before real cost comes out.

[bornskeptic]

33. This comparison shows not that the military action is expensive,

but that the federal funding of NPR is is miniscule as a portion of the budget, and how silly it is for thr GOP to represent cutting it as a meaningful effort to reduce the deficit. The federal government's total spending comes to about $10 billion a day, so $62 million for those missiles represents less than ten minutes of government spending. Looked at from another perspective, it is less than one ten thousandth, or .01% of annual military spending.

[lostnfound]

34. That's 1999 dollars -- today it's $756,000 each.

Unit cost Approximately $569,000 (FY99 $) <1>
Approximately $756,000 in 2011 dollars.