Gitmo Is The World’s ‘Most Expensive Prison’ At $800K Per Detainee Per Year
By Alex Seitz-Wald on Nov 10, 2011 at 2:33 pm
The McDonald's at Guantanamo Bay
As lawmakers on Congress’ deficit reduction super committee look for places to cut the federal budget ahead of their upcoming deadline, they may want to look at the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The facility is “arguably the most expensive prison on earth,” according to a new report from the Miami Herald. With a budget of $139 million last year to house just 171 detainees, it costs more than $800,000 to keep each prisoner for a year — more than 30 times the average cost of a traditional prison. The report is based on a “secret study” conducted by the camp’s former deputy commander, a money manager by training, who calls the facility “expensive” and “inefficient”:
“It’s a slow-motion Berlin Airlift — that’s been going on for 10 years,” says retired Army Brig. Gen. Greg Zanetti, a West Point graduate who in 2008 was deputy commander at the detention center.
Both its location and temporary nature drive up costs, says Zanetti. While there, he wrote a secret study that compared the operation to Alcatraz, noting that Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy had closed it in 1963 because it was too expensive.
At Guantánamo, everything comes in by barge or aircraft “from paper clips to bulldozers,” Zanetti says, as well as the revolving guard force. Also, more recently, a massage chair for stressed-out prison camp staff.
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hmmmm? 
You will find that the dems had a filibuster-proof majority in The Senate for only a few weeks since the time that President Obama took office.
Senator Franken was not sworn in until July 2009, and Senator Kennedy died in August 2009. Deduct all the weeks that Congress was gone for holiday breaks, etc... and then Scott Brown took Kennedy's seat at the beginning of 2010. The Democrats had a filibuster-proof majority in The Senate for a total of less than 14 weeks.
It takes 60 'yes' votes in The Senate to invoke cloture on all the bills that The GOP has obstructed.
A regular 'majority' ain't shit, without a filibuster-proof majority ya don't have squat.
Has nothing to do with 'excuses' it has to do with 'facts'.
got it.
I guess atrocities such as this just aren't a high priority.
