• DancingBear@midwest.social
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    12 days ago

    I assume this is a typo. Maybe 1.2 billion?

    1.2 trillion dollars for a building is the entire military budget for a year. You could pay the entire military to make the ballroom out of golden toothpicks and it still wouldn’t cost 1.2 trillion dollars.

    Edit: my bad, I was looking up the golden ballroom and this came up I didn’t read because I thought it was a typo lol.

    I understand why iron dome for us would cost that much… thanks guys

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      12 days ago

      The golden dome is supposed to be a missile “shield” that will protect the entire contiguous US from ballistic missiles. (The name is based on the Israeli iron dome). I promise you that a $1.2 trillion budget is just the start, and it will never work.

      • RamenJunkie@midwest.social
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        12 days ago

        You know what we could do with $1.2 Trillion dollars to protect against missiles?

        Spend $1.2 Trillion on humanitarian aid to the world removing anyndesire to send missiles in the first place. Oh wait, we were doing that ahit but “USAID is DEI” won out with these fucking morons and was closed.

    • this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml
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      12 days ago

      Not 1 building. A system. Imagine trying to defend every inch of border with missiles. A missle an inch if you will… How much would that cost? Software people. Power food water toilets… The border wall was one thing but lets spend more and with automatic fire piss filled missles over every inch of ground we share with another country and Alaska and let not forget taking over Cuba to put piss missiles there.!

    • Caveman@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      It’s not a typo, a patriot air defence system costs a bit over 1B to produce for one unit.

    • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works
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      12 days ago

      Not a typo, 1.2 billion wouldn’t buy anything as far as space based missile interception, which is where most of the cost is coming from.