How much would you pay for yard work & landscaping? Is $1M+ per day too much?

[underpants]

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Experts estimate National Guard deployment in DC is costing roughly $1 million a day

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/politics/cost-national-guard-deployment-washington-dc

Kate Kuzminski, director of studies at the Center for New American Security, told CNN that rough calculations show the mission is likely costing more than $1 million a day, when taking into account the pay for more than 2,200 National Guard troops deployed, housing, travel, food, fuel, and other logistical needs. That estimate is drawn from costs from the 2020 mobilization of roughly 5,000 National Guardsmen to DC, which was estimated to cost more than $2 million a day.

[CousinIT]

1. Unfortunate..

.. WUtang doesn't have an active BlueSky account. I refuse to link to the NaXi site.

[underpants]

3. Yeah I know. That's why I post a screenshot

[PatSeg]

10. Thank you, it is much appreciated

[Sneederbunk]

2. Gophers are now considered criminals.

[haele]

4. Sooo, you have National Guard, folks who range the gamaut between

Full time students, Convenience Store employees and Uber Drivers to Small Business Owners, Engineers, Doctors, and other professionals who really shouldn't be away from their jobs in DC picking up trash and weed-wacking grasss for the vanity of a senile old man ...?
People putting their livelihoods on hold, potentially losing customers or money to pay mortgages and critical business loans, taxpayers wasting over a million dollars a day for a political stunt that could go to something important like infrastructure or support projects?
Oh, that's just - cool. And Big Biz Media is just playing it off as "business as usual", like National Guards members are just kept in a closet when not being used.

[underpants]

12. "kept in the closet". Yeah out of sight out of mind.

Train derailment, flood, chemical spill the Guard is there for some part of it. There’s usually a mention of it on local news but rarely video.

I don’t know how that works. Is there a scale of on call or is it just out of the blue? Drop everything and report.

My late FIL worked in the railroad. He had scheduled work but even on his off time he was on call. 1-4 maybe 5 I think. A 1 was sit by the phone and don’t make any plans. 3 was eh but 4-5 was very little chance.

[MiHale]

5. Repeat after me, stupid...stupid...stupid...about 2-3 million more times.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. National guardner?

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[underpants]

11. Guard'ner. I didn't catch the first time. 🤪

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. "My recruiter said 'see the world.'"

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[underpants]

13. Hilarious thanks

[mainer]

8. They keep this up, cities are going to start requesting them

My yard could use some work, too.

[Vinca]

9. The bittersweet vines are totally out of control, so I'm taking a million under advisement.

The deal depends on a Powerball win, of course.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Not if Paco Rabinowitz is doing it

As a gardener, he's worth his weight in boneless Chanukah ham at Olive Garden.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Fighting crime in DC one weed at a time