Cost Benefit Analysis

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Cost Benefit Analysis

By Charles P. Pierce at 12:01PM

It appears that, in order to make sure everybody still knows we're the biggest swinging dick on the planet, we're going to send some Tomahawks down Syria way. Nobody's really sure what good this will do, but the elite consensus is that we have to Do Something, so off we go. Each Tomahawk costs about $1.5 million so, let's just say we shoot off about 20 of those suckers so that John McCain can complain that we didn't shoot off 50 of them. We're dropping $30 million on some Syrians to prove how tough we are.


I mention this only because, well, Congressman Tom Marino is very sorry, Grandma, but you'll be eating some Fancy Feast for Thanksgiving.

"It's going to take two decades - even if we start now - to try to eliminate this debt," he said. "Folks, we do not have the money. The revenue is not there. How are you going to pay for it?"

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But $30 million to blow stuff up? Absolutely. We're like a drunk on payday.