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The financial costs to the U.S. military for discharging and replacing gay service members under the nation's "don't ask, don't tell" policy are nearly twice what the government estimated last year, with taxpayers covering at least $364 million in associated funds over the policy's first decade, according to a University of California report scheduled for release today.
Members of a UC-Santa Barbara group examining the cost of the policy found that a Government Accountability Office study last year underestimated the costs of firing approximately 9,500 service members between 1994 and 2003 for homosexuality. The GAO, which acknowledged difficulties in coming up with its number, estimated a cost of at least $190.5 million for the same time period. The new estimate is 91 percent higher.
Only in America would we waste hundreds of millions of dollars to make the nation less safe and secure. Discrimination is a hard habit to kick.
2 Comments:
I strongly recomend "Secrets of a Gay Marine porn Star" By Rich Merrit. The tittle sounds a little silly, but the book is a heartbreaking story of a guy growing up in the conservative south, attending the infamous Bob jones University, and comming to adulthood as a Marine with all the bagage of conservativism.
Bob Jones is where Fred Phelps went to school. The book also helps better understand the whole issue of Don't ask Don't tell.
posted by Anonymous, at
2/14/2006 1:15 PM
You know what I want? A hot military stud to eat my sweaty, fat ass. Preferably in a foxhole.
How can gays like me serve in the military? I'd try to blow all of the soldiers.
