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Kasz216 on 04 August 2013
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the2real4mafol said:
Kasz216 said:
the2real4mafol said:
I never knew terrorists were better off than actual hard working civilians. Certainly a great reason to shut down Guantanamo, even though there were many reasons to close it anyway.

I'm sure America would be a far better place if it ended it's $700 billion military budget. A lot of domestic areas of spending have been ignored for far too long.

Where do you get that from this?


They aren't better off... it's just expensive as fuck to run an out of the coutnry maxium dentention center for terrorists.

 

There are ~160 prisoenors there.

For those 160 prisoners they have 2,000 employees from  guards, interegators, cooks, janitors, doctors, pscyiatrists not to mention the higher ups... and since these guys are military you can't just include their military salaries and healthcare but also have to include their various benefits.

Then you throw in the fact that the soldiers eat for free, have paid entertainment, housing costs, utilities.

 

Basically these guards get paid a full salary, free healthcare, free living arrangements, free food, free entertainment... etc.

Throw in stuff like....

•  $14.1 million for prisoner review boards for the 71 captives at Guantánamo who are currently not cleared for release, convicted of crimes or awaiting trial;

•  $40 million, already appropriated by Congress for a not-yet-built fiber-optic cable linking the base to Florida;

•  $56.9 million for contractors, including intelligence analysts, librarians and linguists;

•  $65.9 million to the Navy base, which functions as a landlord to the detention center zone, and charges for use of its facilities, including prison staff housing;

•  $116 million for the base’s war court complex, including security, translation and computer services as well as charter fights between Washington and Guantánamo.

It adds up fast.

They get $2.3 million spent on them per person per year, no ordinary person has that much spent on them. Even if that money is spent on torturing them. But to me Guantanamo just shows how spineless Bush was. He knew he wouldn't get away with it in America, so he forces a country like Cuba against it's will to house it. 

Also, i don't see how all that spending is worth it just to keep 160 terrorists locked up. It has made no difference to these terrorist organisations anyway, they can always recruit more. And i know they are military but why do they deserve all that? Healthcare and food is a given, but everything else shouldn't be free. They get paid, don't they? 

I think for the small amount of people involved, it's just not worth it to be honest. All that money could be helpful somewhere else, that could be enough to give universal health insurance to the public, regardless of whether they are employed or not. 


Did I say it was worth it?  I was simply taking offense at saying they have it better off then a regular american because it takes a hell of a lot of money to keep them in place to torture them.

Which likely does still happen since gitmo isn't really "American" soil.

 

So much easier and cost effective to send them to Eastern Europeon Nations for torture if that's what they want to do.