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'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Cost Taxpayers Nearly $400 Million, GAO Reports
ABC ^ | 1/20/11 | Devin Dwyer

Posted on 01/24/2011 7:44:22 PM PST by Slippery Jim

ABC News' Devin Dwyer reports: One month after President Obama signed a repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," government accountants have finished tallying up how much the policy cost taxpayers during the 16 years it was in effect.

The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office said in a report released Thursday that each discharge of a gay or lesbian service member over the past six years alone cost $52,800, including administrative costs and costs to recruit and train a replacement....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: dadt; dontaskdonttell; homosexualagenda; propaganda; spending; troll; waste; zot
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To: Slippery Jim

And lying politicians are costing us BILLIONS AND BILLIONS, BONEHEADS!!!!!

Never mind the fraud of the government services and the FED and Fannie and Freddie,....on and on and on................


21 posted on 01/24/2011 8:25:19 PM PST by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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To: melancholy; little jeremiah
LOL!!

Nope. I just have a relationship with lj that I haven't forged with you yet.

22 posted on 01/24/2011 8:25:34 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: Slippery Jim
Because gay & lesbians enlisted only for the education paid by taxpayer's and then claimed discrimination and quit.
23 posted on 01/24/2011 8:28:24 PM PST by kcvl
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To: DJ MacWoW; little jeremiah
Nope. I just have a relationship with lj that I haven't forged with you yet.

I don't like women! LOL! Your whole ping list are chasing me out of the building! LOL!!!!! Just kiddin' ;) OK?

24 posted on 01/24/2011 8:29:12 PM PST by melancholy (Papa Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist)
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To: melancholy

Yeah yeah yeah. That’s why you wanted it pinged. LOL


25 posted on 01/24/2011 8:31:32 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Mind meld. It’s a FR thang.


26 posted on 01/24/2011 8:35:20 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Benchim

They didn’t figure how much was saved when they had to dismiss homosexuals when they harassed the straights. NOW it will cost the service millions to get rid of the creeps and more likely it will be Christians (bigots) who will be kicked out because they didn’t succumb to the little gestures of love. The military is preventing freedom of religion because they are making the Bible into hate speech.

Homosexuality is all about sex and lust.....just the fact that they are so promiscuous proves it NEVER is about devotion and love for another person. That is why it is such a disgusting act (aside from the diseases and damage)....no honor or character for people who engage in those acts and think it “good”. It always ends up in rampant pederasty, like Afghanistan, the Greeks and ancient Japanese.

Our military will be void of honor and character and no different than the pagan Greeks and Romans...the atheist Russians who made Patton puke and the Odin worshipping homosexual Nazi troops....So disgusting how they hide the true facts about the effect of the promotion of such evil, ugly demeaning acts on the morality where ever it occurs, like the Weimar Republic. The Bible describes Sodom and Gomorrah and it was no uglier than the Weimar Republic. It was well known that the National Vice of Germany in the 20’s was rampant homosexuality. Every government official from other countries were warned to watch their back when they had to interact with Germans.

We need to get back to the Christian paradigm that we used to be under for two hundred years. It is aligned with Natural Law Theory and perfect for a free and just people. We need to get back to right and wrong. You cannot teach young children that evil acts are good. Moral relativism has to be abolished in the schools....John Dewey put it in the curricula...that is why we now have such immorality in society. it creates an immoral people who will end up like the Roman Empire. If it wasn’t for Christianity, Western Civ would have died. No pagan, atheist, islamic, etc., societies could ever create the type of free-for-everyone country we had. It is not possible.

Morality is the fundamental element which can only be transmitted to children through an intact family where the mother thinks children are more important than her “job”. Raising children is the most important job in this nation and the Marxists have been destroying the family to destroy the morality of the children and make women think raising children is drudgery. Now mothers have no values, but very superficial ones because of the lack of knowledge because the schools were ruined by the cultural Marxists starting in the 30’s.


27 posted on 01/24/2011 8:37:10 PM PST by savagesusie
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To: Slippery Jim
So does the GAO have an estimate of what the new rainbow camouflage colored military is going to cost taxpayers?
Of course not! They have no idea what the unintended consequences, and costs, are going to be. Will there be seperate housing and berthing issues? Will additional toilet facilities need to be constructed? The list is endless!
And as far as replacing those who were outed...what about those who aren't going to volunteer any longer or reenlist because of this boondoggle? I would be willing to bet that those costs are going to far outweigh the ones that have been seen so far. It won't be in just a few "critical" jobs and will spread across the entire spectrum.
Oops... better not go any further! It doesn't fit with the narrative.

The leftists have found a simple way of neutering and destroying what was once the best military force in the world...which was their real intent all along.

28 posted on 01/24/2011 8:37:20 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: melancholy

Triple mind meld.


29 posted on 01/24/2011 8:37:39 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Slippery Jim

I propose a solution to this shortfall.

Defund Planned Parenthood entirely. Government has no business being involved in any way, pro or con, between what goes on with a woman and her abortionist.


30 posted on 01/24/2011 8:37:55 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: little jeremiah

You bet!


31 posted on 01/24/2011 8:38:38 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: little jeremiah; melancholy
Slippery Jim has left the building.

Goodnight FRiends!

32 posted on 01/24/2011 8:59:28 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: DJ MacWoW; little jeremiah

He should have left the building last night.

Good night.


33 posted on 01/24/2011 9:06:32 PM PST by melancholy (Papa Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist)
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To: Slippery Jim

Of course we’ll never know the net cost - or maybe benefit - of the policy because the study didn’t look at the costs of the distractions, inefficiencies and personal conflicts which were avoided with the policy in place......


34 posted on 01/24/2011 9:15:35 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Slippery Jim
Had they "asked" on enlistment, the cost could have been avoided completely. If the enlistee lied, he could be discharged later for that. No need for a lot of cost.
35 posted on 01/24/2011 9:31:20 PM PST by JoeFromSidney
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To: melancholy

Oh, he just slipped out the back door...


36 posted on 01/24/2011 10:00:30 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Slippery Jim

37 posted on 01/24/2011 11:34:48 PM PST by smokingfrog (BORN free - taxed to DEATH)
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To: Slippery Jim
cost $52,800, including administrative costs and costs to recruit and train a replacement....

Hmmmm from what I understand the military never stops recruiting and training!

38 posted on 01/25/2011 4:37:15 AM PST by panthermom
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To: Slippery Jim

How many druggies were bounced out? The cost of each new hire to use 0b0z0’s words was an investment. A drug free service man/woman is an investment versus a druggie.

Now our military can’t discharge open homosexuals, we as taxpayers will be picking up the cost of housing and medical care for their serial partners.

Then, when the number of aids cases explode with the active duty gays and their serial sexual partners, it will cost about $100,000 per year for each identified aids case.

There will be no disclosure of present aids or other serious medical problems of the new dependents, and those costs will be budget breakers for the military in a few years.

Last but not least, any druggie or loser on active duty will holler discrimination when the military tries to get rid of them for not being a good soldier/sailor/marine/airman/coastie. So the bad stuff will stay on active duty as no one will dare get rid of the scum because of legal procedures against those trying to enforce the MCJ.


39 posted on 01/25/2011 7:37:19 AM PST by Grampa Dave (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
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To: Redbob
For once, it sounds like we got a bargain...

LOL! I quite agree. $400 million is essentially pocket change in this area.

40 posted on 01/25/2011 8:14:09 AM PST by fwdude (Anita Bryant was right.)
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