A Brief Look at Fiscal Responsibility
At the beginning of 2015, the prison held 122 detainees; at the end of 2015 it held 107. So over the
course of 2015, the absolute minimum cost ranged between $3.7 million and $4.2 million per year for each detainee. Keeping a prisoner at a maximum-security federal prison costs just over $34,000 per year.
[source: https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/sites/default/files/cost-of-guantanamo-brief.pdf]
That explains why Cockholster and Rethugliklan debt-hawks demand it be kept open.
So Republicans are glad, glad, happy, happy that Guantanamo will continue to recruit thousands of new IS fighters, suicide bombers and political leaders, while pissing off all the Muslims in the world. The best way to win wars is generally not to make sure the enemy has plenty of soldiers with reasons to fight. Strike up the band. Start the parades. Pull infinite numbers of troops out of your ass. Arm them with food taken from America’s undernourished children. Idiots.
Also, too, conjure up even more resources to take on North Korea and the Middle East. Keep a reserve for economic wars with China, Mexico, and the EU. Rechristen the ship of state USS Impossible. America vs. Everybody is the work of exceptional idiots.
They don’t want to win wars. When you win wars, the war is over. And you have to wind down the extra spending, the extra security apparatus, the propaganda.
I was just gonna say…if I were writing this lousy AP article, I would’ve included the costs of keeping it open vs. the cost of transferring those people to a supermax federal prison. Seems like an obvious omission. I’m starting to think it was deliberate since the AP has become so fucking bad in the age of tRump.