When the normal worlds budgets for anything, they don't say it cost this amount which is basically the difference between current and additional costs.  

You add in everything it takes and allocate the portion to the project, like man hours, stuff pulled out of inventory, depreciation on assets, and so on.  The fuel alone to support the carrier group exceeds $10M a day I would imagine.

Hagel is full of sh1t, it how the Iraq was cost x amount of dollars per day, but at the end exceeded every number ever published by a factor of 1000 and now is around $1.7trillion and still counting.  $10 million a day, GD do they think we are suckers.

From the link:

Asked Thursday how much the U.S. was spending, Rear Adm. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, said the department is still working to calculate official costs. He added that he "wouldn't be surprised if the answer that we come back with once we do the pencil work is different" than any estimates.

Without action from Congress, the budget caps, known as sequestration, would return in October 2015, the start of the 2016 fiscal year. Under President Obama's five-year budget, the Pentagon projects that it will need more than $535 billion in fiscal 2016. But under the budget caps, the Pentagon is expected to receive less than $500 billion, leaving a $35 billion budget gap.

So - he moved on.

And now he is Bush and Cheney redux.

Is it because we are in the middle of and tolerating a war on "the unlucky" (poor) in this country, and that's mostly women and children?  And almost none of us are activists anymore.  It's too much trouble to show up and genuinely care?

It is an opportunity and a time for the world to wake up.  I know if we all worked for lives of equality for Middle Eastern sisters and their baby girls it would blow up every shred of the Republican war on women in the US, like a bunker buster, but would that be so bad?

I went to the same mosque the Oklahoma Muslim who beheaded his co-worker today. I live ten minutes away!

The Imam was Imad Enchassi the last I heard. He was a friend of mine. He is a Lebanese-born Sunni who hates Israel.....

They sold Milestones in the book shop...calls for replacing all non-Islamic governments with Islamic ones....Yahya Graff, another white convert to Islam, had that prayed for the destruction of Israel and America.

The imam...., Suhaib Webb, is hailed as a moderate by liberals in the United States but he was the one that explicitly told me that according to Islam, three choices are to be given to non-Muslims: convert, pay the jizyah tax and live under Islamic rule, or jihad.

I wondered about that guy who breached the White House fence the other day.  He was carrying knives and a hatchet.  Gotta wonder.