In case you are not aware of media bias, let me explain. It not only has to do with how the media writes a story or the terms they use, but the articles which they publish and which they do not. Here Yahoo proudly prints this article on gays on its front page instead of something like this. This gay advocacy article's message is "allow gays in the military because it is too expensive to kick them out and retrain new people."
However, the article never mentions the potential costs of recruiting and training people that leave if gays ARE allowed openly in the military. Recruitment and re-enlistment would plummet. Straight men do not like shower with gays. Wow, what a surprise. How "intolerant" those straights must be. As I've said before, it's not about gay rights, its about leftists who hate the military. It's the same reason why they want gay scoutmasters, in order to bring the organizations down. Parents would pull their kids out, crumbling the organization.
While many people tolerate gays, there are limits. They don't want to shower with them and they don't want them taking their kids camping. Is that too much to ask? Allowing gays in these organizations would be a destructive virus.
Discharging troops under the Pentagon's policy on gays cost $363.8 million over 10 years, almost double what the government concluded a year ago, a private report says. The report, to be released Tuesday by a University of California Blue Ribbon Commission, questioned the methodology the Government Accountability Office used when it estimated that the financial impact of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy was at least $190.5 million.
Cautioning that the figures may be too low, the GAO said the federal government spent at least $95.4 million to recruit and $95.1 million to train replacements from 1994 through 2003 for the 9,488 troops discharged during that period because of the policy. So, the commission focused on the estimated value the military lost from
"It builds on the previous findings and paints a more complete picture of the costs," said Rep. Marty Meehan, D-Mass., who has proposed legislation that would repeal the policy.
Congress approved the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in 1993 during the Clinton administration. It allows gays and lesbians to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps as long as they abstain from homosexual activity and do not disclose their sexual orientation....
each person discharged. The report detailed costs of $79.3 million for recruiting enlisted service members, $252.4 million for training them, $17.8 million for training officers and $14.3 million for "separation travel" once a service member is discharged.....AP via Yahoo
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