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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The bomb TRUMP dropped today costed $314 MILLION. Don't tell me we can't...
... afford to fund programs that help the poor."
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spanone
(135,950 posts)trump knows now how to 'marshall' the media...kill some people
SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)I wouldn't be surprised if the industry mark up was 80% of the price
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)doesn't go for a "quantity discount".
flotsam
(3,268 posts)unit cost is a thrifty mere 16 million...
http://www.thesquander.com/much-mother-bombs-nonnuclear-gbu-43b-massive-ordnance-air-blast-bomb-moab-cost/
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But the bomb dropped on Maundy Thursday of Holy Week (won't President Trump's Easter proclamation be a hoot this year?) only cost $16 million. Compared to the impotent display of the Tomahawk missiles in Syria, it's a bargain.
Welcome to DU, flotsam.
Initech
(100,149 posts)And those at the top are getting rich beyond their wildest dreams, while bankrupting the rest of us in the process.
meow2u3
(24,776 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Could have been funded with that $314 million of our tax money.
Deplorable