americanprogress.org - 3/2/2009
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The Costs of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell By Lawrence J. Korb | March 2, 2009 As the U.S. military seeks to expand by an additional 48,000 ground troops over the next four fiscal years, the armed services and the Army in particular are faced with the challenge of enlisting highly qualified and ...
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Rahm Emanuel said this week that energy costs
are too low. The Washington Times reported: Mr. Emanuel...
said energy costs are too low anyway . U.S. car companies have relied too long on gas-guzzling autos and failed to invest in alternative energy ...
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Rahmbo Says "Energy Costs Are Too Low" Which Explains ...
msnbc.msn.com - 2/25/2009
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A new government report on medical costs paints
a stark picture for President Barack Obama, who is...
expected to call for a health care overhaul in a speech Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress.
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Health care costs to top $8,000 per person
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Repeal Sought Again of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Law
The Caucus —
... to cement an already deep divide between political parties, as well as increased the gulf between social conservatives and Mr. Clinton. The “don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy was the resulting compromise. In seeking cosponsors while reintroducing the bill, Ms. Tauscher said: “With fifteen years of social progress and the recent sea of change we have witnessed in the national political landscape, I am further encouraged that now is definitely the time to act.” She also contended that the costs of the policy were too great, for those who were let go from the service over the years ...
Army discharged 11 soldiers in January because of DADT.
Think Progress —
... the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy banning gay men and women from serving openly. Since its enactment in 1994, the policy has “cost the country hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of service men and women…including approximately 800 with skills deemed ‘mission critical.” Today, in “ ...
McCain: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Has ‘Been Working And I Think It’s Been Working Well’
Think Progress —
... . According to a 2005 report from the Government Accountability Office, “the cost of discharging and replacing service members fired because of their sexual orientation during the policy’s first 10 years totaled at least $190.5 million — roughly $20,000 per discharged service member. ...
DADT: It’s Like Setting Huge Piles Of Money On Fire
Wonk Room —
... policy in dollars and cents terms, the amount of taxpayer investment represented by Lt. Col. Fehrenbach is enormous. In firing him, not only do the U.S. taxpayers lose the money that was spent training him, we lose the money we have to spend training someone else to replace him, train someone else to train the hundreds of other pilots he could have trained. It’s like flushing tens of millions of dollars down the toilet.
In March, CAPAF’s Lawrence Korb wrote about the costs of DADT:
Since 1994, the military’s “Don’t Ask, ...
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