[QUOTE=PaRaD0XX;32886838]I'm glad this got taken care of but really... I have never seen 100,000$ sitting in a room and this BAFFLES me.
In our current state of economy isn't that making the $ worth even less?[/QUOTE]
No, private industries are the ones getting this money, military expenses helps the economy, that's one of the pluses of war, well at least...a full on war...maybe not this one so much
There are about 130 million taxpayers in the U.S.
$1 Billion divided among them is an average of $7.70
I don't know about you guys, but I am more than happy to shell out $7.70 to take out a dictator and liberate 6 million people. Just sayin, ya know?
[Edit] Forgot to mention that was over about 8 months, I give Netflix 25 times as much a month. :D
Maybe oil prices will finally go down again in the UK, they did when it was announced that tripoli had been captured, $1 billion so I can get cheaper diesel, thanks NATO! :dance:
[QUOTE=Ihazard;32895826]Maybe oil prices will finally go down again in the UK, they did when it was announced that tripoli had been captured, $1 billion so I can get cheaper diesel, thanks NATO! :dance:[/QUOTE]
Yeah because Libya was the only place we got oil from.
well spent
although i'm glad the US didn't deploy ground troops i mean jesus christ look at vietnam, 600k dead. don't the US learn not to poke their nose in?
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;32884951]As much as I don't mind seeing Gaddafi gone, it really wasn't our business. Libya was not a threat to us, so why should we attack them?
If anything, these wars have made us more of a target. We can't keep expecting to invade other countries without any future retaliation.[/QUOTE]
If anything it gives anti-American people in the middle east more fuel for their hate fire. It's another example of how American can't stick to its own business. I personally don't mind that we helped remove Gaddafi from his seat of power, his people deserve democracy. (which is now up for them to not fuck up)
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[QUOTE=MrEndangered;32896340]Yeah because Libya was the only place we got oil from.[/QUOTE]
Come on, everyone knows OPEC will use any excuse to drive oil prices up. It's almost guaranteed that if the Prince of Saudi Arabia farts OPEC would find a reason to break our backs with oil prices.
[QUOTE=Drsalvador;32896608]well spent
although i'm glad the US didn't deploy ground troops i mean jesus christ look at vietnam, 600k dead. don't the US learn not to poke their nose in?[/QUOTE]
Not really the same thing there, champ.
Yet it only cost about thirteen cents to kill him.
[QUOTE=Drsalvador;32896608]well spent
although i'm glad the US didn't deploy ground troops i mean jesus christ look at vietnam, 600k dead. don't the US learn not to poke their nose in?[/QUOTE]
more like 50,000? Looking at Iraq or Afghanistan would be a better comparison and even then it's more likely that there would be less wounded as the rebel movement had a lot more support in Libya, as well as the Anti-Gaddafi forces being easily identifiable to the Rebel fighters. But still, good thing they didn't deploy them, apart from the troops that rescued the crashed fighter pilots :v:
1.1 Billion over the course of half a year isn't much at all. We should be complaining that we now 'owe' Libya 37 Billion that we have to pay them
But that's also not that much. Microsoft made half that last quarter
Shit, that could have bought another day in Iraq. Careless waste!
[QUOTE=smurfy;32891117]The US spends around $200 billion every year on debt interest - not even paying off the debt, just to stop it rising
$1 billion to free 6 million people is a bargain[/QUOTE]
Free from what? Libya will just become US/NATO colony now.
I'm not saying Gaddafi wasn't egotistical guy, but why the hell did people there start protesting in first place when they had everything?
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]THE GADDAFI NO ONE WILL TELL YOU ABOUT
by Moreno K O'campo on Friday, October 21, 2011 at 1:13pm
The media has successfully painted Gaddafi as a hard-core dictator, tyrant whatever you want to call him. However, the media as usual has also failed to show the kind, giving Gaddafi we never heard of. Gaddafi, unlike most dictators I will refrain from naming, managed to show his humane side, the very side we dream of seeing in other dictators who just talk and talk.
I consider Libyans lucky to a certain extent and one wonders with the new democratic rule they cry for will it improve or worsen life for them. Yes, Gaddafi spent millions of Libya`s money on personal ventures but is the average Libyan poor? We know others who take a country and destroy it until you feel like there is no hope of restoring this country… looting some prefer to call it. Did Gaddafi loot Libya in any way?
Now let us get to the unknown facts about the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi:
1. There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens.
2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law.
3. Home considered a human right in Libya – Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a home. Gaddafi’s father has died while him, his wife and his mother are still living in a tent.
4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinar (US$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family.
Traditional wedding in Tripoli, Libya
5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans are literate. Today the figure is 83%.
6. Should Libyans want to take up farming career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kick-start their farms – all for free.
7. If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need in Libya, the government funds them to go abroad for it – not only free but they get US$2,300/mth accommodation and car allowance.
8. In Libyan, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price.
9. The price of petrol in Libya is $0.14 per liter.
10. Libya has no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally.
Great Man-Made River project in Libya… $27 billion
11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.
12. A portion of Libyan oil sale is, credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.
13. A mother who gave birth to a child receive US$5,000
14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $ 0.15
15. 25% of Libyans have a university degree
16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man-Made River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.
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I honestly don't see any reason to protest about anything.
But obviously Gaddafi wasn't liked by west and they just waited for him to screw up (which he did by shooting at civilians) so they could "liberate" Libya.
Not to mention inner tribal wars will start now, and if lets hope Sharia law doesn't stay.
I don't care that much for Gaddafi, but I just somehow feel sorry for Libya, since it's in ruins now and if islamists get in power it wont be good. I even heard some guy yell "Allahu Akbar" in the video where Gaddafi is captured.
Didn't the new Libyan government pledge to repay the billion?
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;32905192]Didn't the new Libyan government pledge to repay the billion?[/QUOTE]
And Greece pledged to repay their debt. We can see how well that's been going.
Debt is a funny thing...
[QUOTE=Spirit_Breaker;32905003]Free from what? Libya will just become US/NATO colony now.
I'm not saying Gaddafi wasn't egotistical guy, but why the hell did people there start protesting in first place when they had everything?
I honestly don't see any reason to protest about anything.
But obviously Gaddafi wasn't liked by west and they just waited for him to screw up (which he did by shooting at civilians) so they could "liberate" Libya.
Not to mention inner tribal wars will start now, and if lets hope Sharia law doesn't stay.
I don't care that much for Gaddafi, but I just somehow feel sorry for Libya, since it's in ruins now and if islamists get in power it wont be good. I even heard some guy yell "Allahu Akbar" in the video where Gaddafi is captured.[/QUOTE]
Nothing is worth as much as Freedom.
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