All we need to do is hire the people who appraised Bin Laden's hideout at a million dollars. Seriously, its an odd shaped lot, with uneven fences, no phone lines or internet connection, crumbling walls, cheap plastic garden furniture, in a country with a per capita GDP of $2,700. Unless the place comes with a cone of silence or room of invisibility, I don't see how that could be worth a million. And if it is, either the dollar is more worthless than I thought or my home might actually be worth more than I paid for it. I'm sure the mock-up the government built for training cost more than a million, but that's more a function of our governments great ability to overpay for anything they do. I find it hard to believe that hideout was worth a million, and don't really understand why every news report likes to focus on that largely meaningless number.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
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