Sunday, March 23, 2008

M30- HOW MUCH IS IT

HOW'S THIS FOR A COMPARISON

ALL ABOUT THE B-2 SPIRIT HERE
Recently a B-2 bomber crashed and burned on Guam. The total value of that bomber was 1.2 billion dollars. Let's take a minute to fathom this...
1,000,000,000 (alternately known as one thousand million and/or one billion.
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So let's take this number $1,200,000,000, the bombers cost that was one in a fleet of (21) bombers and we will divide it by the CNMI's annual budget of $160 million to set a comparison.
The math goes like this $1,200,000,000 divided by $160,000,000 = 7.5. The cost of this one bomber could budget the CNMI for 7.5 years. (21 bombers, 157.5 years, or till 2166.)
Also here's another view... At the spending rate of $1 million a month this would take you, yes I said you and you thought you could shop, 1,200 months to spend it all or 100 years....
Makes you feel kinda insufficient doesn't it?
.....GED.....

5 comments:

bigsoxfan said...

Hate to crap on the parade, but that number floating around re. the B-2 price is a little faulty. To actually build a new plane, you would need around 3-4 hundred mill.. The liberal media loves to call this stuff expensive and usually quote the price; including R&D costs. Why they stopped at twenty planes, I don't know. However, that point is moot also as the production jigs and tools are done. Why I even got into this I don't know. I'm an F-111 and B-1 fan anyway. Check out
http://www.strategypage.com/militaryforums/6-51484.aspx for the whole financial analysis. They even have a marine page for the nu ckle draggers. More to the point of your post, we can't drop the island of Saipan on Iran, but the B-2 fleet could deliver a whole world of hurt. I'm probably going to do even more time in purgatory for posting this on a Sunday.

Anonymous said...

Yes but if I feel insignificant I think about our retarded leaders and then feel good about myself. Fuck Saipan. I am moving to the US next month.

bigsoxfan said...

You'll be fine there, anon. Dishwashers make at least six dollars an hour.

glend558 said...

BSF: So who is shopping around for discount B-2's? Actually on the wikipeida link I posted, it has them priced from 700 million to 2.2billion, I guess some come with AC and CD players.

bigsoxfan said...

Don't forget the toilet seats. Wiki is good for general news, but I trust it as much as .. Thinking of something which rhymes with Bill
s dick and Hill's mouth... Try the "federation of American Scientists" They are a bunch of pinko commie fags, but they keep in touch with what is up on the military side. Actually, much better than the big mainland papers manage to do.