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Both sets are made of wood, dark cherry finish. Bedroom set has 7 pcs. (headboard, footboard, vanity, bench, dresser, mirror, and chest). Dining room set has table w/leaf, 6 chairs, china cabinet, and chest. Antiques? Where to sell?
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Go to the library and ask the information desk about finding a book to help you price the pieces. I did and found out I had a table worth $11,000. I was shocked.(no I didn't sell it). You can also look under the furniture and try and find the manufacturer and then do a computer search. Once you find a price you can go to Craigslist or put it in an antique store on consignment. Or just put an ad in your local paper or Penny Saver.
Go to the library and ask the information desk about finding a book to help you price the pieces. I did and found out I had a table worth $11,000. I was shocked.(no I didn't sell it). You can also look under the furniture and try and find the manufacturer and then do a computer search. Once you find a price you can go to Craigslist or put it in an antique store on consignment. Or just put an ad in your local paper or Penny Saver.
What is the average cost of imprisoning criminals in the 50 states?
Funloving
Then why does it cost American taxpayers so much for Gitmo!?
Running the prison camp costs the Pentagon more than $150 million a year -- just over $900,000 for each of the 166 detainees at the facility, located on a Navy base on the eastern end of Cuba.
By comparison, costs for a typical federal prison inmate run about $25,000 a year; at the "supermax" prison in Colorado that holds domestic terrorists Eric Rudolph and Ted Kaczynski, it's about $60,000.
Where is the money going? Who is getting rich out of this debacle?
Who gets the $150 million?
Answer
And they do not even eat.At Guantanamo, everything comes in by barge or aircraft "from paper clips to bulldozers," Zanetti says, as well as the revolving guard force. Also, more recently, a massage chair for stressed-out prison camp staff.
Zanetti, now a Seattle-based money manager, was a financial adviser in civilian life before his New Mexico National Guard unit's call-up to Guantanamo. He has never disputed that America needed the detention center after 9/11 but argues that today it deserves a cost-benefit analysis.
"What complicates the overall command further is you have the lawyers, interrogators and guards all operating under separate budgets and command structures," he said. "It's like combining the corporate cultures and budgets of Goldman, Apple and Coke. Business schools would have a field day dissecting the structure of Guantanamo."
Spending is not just aimed at upgrades for the captive population, most in medium security confinement, but also for the revolving staff of 1,850 troops, linguists, intelligence analysts, federal agents and contract laborers.
Commanders are contracting for a new round of capitol improvements, including $2 million worth of new computer equipment to grow storage space under a fast-track, noncompetitive contract with Dell recently posted on a government website.
And that doesn't include the un-networked laptops the prison provides captives taking a life skills class that includes a resume writing lesson, in case anyone gets to go home.
Meantime, the guard force commander is getting a new 3,000-3,500 square foot headquarters at the prison camps for what is predicted to cost less than $750,000, below the amount that needs Congress' sign-off.
The military is also spending up to $750,000 to replace the aging, rusting prison camp hospital with a new "infirmary hub" and so-called "expeditionary medical shelters" around the prison camps. Equipping the new hospital will cost more so the Navy Medical Logistics Command has put out a bid for everything from microscopes to resuscitators. Price? Unknown.
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Millions go to an intelligence operation whose early Guantanamo interrogations may have fed tips to the U.S. manhunt that tracked Osama bin Laden to his hideout in Pakistan this year. It continues to interrogate some of the captives and maintains risk assessments on each one.
A guard with four years in the Navy, with the rank of Petty Officer 3rd class, gets $2,985.84 a month, including the same hazardous duty pay as they'd pull in Kabul. A Navy commander with 15 years but no kids gets $7,840 a month, including hazardous duty pay.
But Guantanamo's a place where today an Army colonel can talk about "the battle rhythm" of the camps, have his family on the base and his kids in the base's school system, which currently has 247 kids.
Prison staffers have their own gym, housing and newsletter, dining rooms and first-run movie theater at "Camp America," adjacent to the camps. They have their own chapel, mental health services and mini-mart that was recently peddling a $99.99 SCUBA "bodyglove" and tacky souvenirs such as Cuba Libre-Gitmo fridge magnets and a full aisle of protein supplements.
Guards and other staff also cross over to the larger Navy base for the programs of any sailor or contractor pulling permanent duty on the base - a golf course and deep-sea diving, beach parties and fishing trips.
They can hit the Irish pub, which was built after the Qaida airlifts began, take classes over the Internet, which were established once the prison was opened, and can grab McDonald's drive-through on their way to work.
And that's just for the guards.
Captives and captors also have their own kitchen, health services, transportation and security services all fueled by a steady supply line.
In their cellblocks, cooperative captives get satellite television with sports, news and religious programming as well as Arabic soap operas.
Pentagon contract workers maintain a 24,000-title book, video and magazine library and are building yet another soccer field for cooperative captives.
Unless they're hunger strikers fed Ensure through tubes tethered through their nose into the stomach, each detainee is offered up to 4,500 calories a day - including lamb certified as halal, Islam's version of kosher.
"We are running a five-star resort and not a detention facility for terrorists," says Florida Republican Rep. Allen West, the fiscal conservative and former Army lieutenant colonel who toured the facility in March. "For example, why do they need 24 cable TV channels?"
Soldiers and sailors consistently gripe that the Internet is slow inside their private quarters, which mostly range from trailer parks to townhouses.
But, unlike in Afghanistan, some prison camp staff officers have brought their families, gotten suburban-style housing and put the kids in the Navy base school. Sailors said it is better than ship duty. Sure it's surrounded by water. But you get private quarters, scuba diving and can check in on weekends at guest housing complete with big-screen TVs and backyard patio with barbecue grill.
"This is great. You get the opportunity to serve your country and nobody's shooting at us. Plus, there's no mortars coming in," said Staff Sgt. Fred Plimpton, 55, who was a New York state trooper who was dispatched to Ground Zero on 9/11 and later deployed to Baghdad.
And, it's close enough to home that members of the New York Army National Guard infantry unit now patrolling the prison camps' perimeter can race home if there's an emergency.
"Peter's wife just had a baby and we got him right home," Plimpton said in September. "Moffit's wife went into labor and we got him out of here right away. It's good to see the guys get out of here when a baby's born."
Only in an operation bursting with personnel and charter aircraft can that even happen.
And they do not even eat.At Guantanamo, everything comes in by barge or aircraft "from paper clips to bulldozers," Zanetti says, as well as the revolving guard force. Also, more recently, a massage chair for stressed-out prison camp staff.
Zanetti, now a Seattle-based money manager, was a financial adviser in civilian life before his New Mexico National Guard unit's call-up to Guantanamo. He has never disputed that America needed the detention center after 9/11 but argues that today it deserves a cost-benefit analysis.
"What complicates the overall command further is you have the lawyers, interrogators and guards all operating under separate budgets and command structures," he said. "It's like combining the corporate cultures and budgets of Goldman, Apple and Coke. Business schools would have a field day dissecting the structure of Guantanamo."
Spending is not just aimed at upgrades for the captive population, most in medium security confinement, but also for the revolving staff of 1,850 troops, linguists, intelligence analysts, federal agents and contract laborers.
Commanders are contracting for a new round of capitol improvements, including $2 million worth of new computer equipment to grow storage space under a fast-track, noncompetitive contract with Dell recently posted on a government website.
And that doesn't include the un-networked laptops the prison provides captives taking a life skills class that includes a resume writing lesson, in case anyone gets to go home.
Meantime, the guard force commander is getting a new 3,000-3,500 square foot headquarters at the prison camps for what is predicted to cost less than $750,000, below the amount that needs Congress' sign-off.
The military is also spending up to $750,000 to replace the aging, rusting prison camp hospital with a new "infirmary hub" and so-called "expeditionary medical shelters" around the prison camps. Equipping the new hospital will cost more so the Navy Medical Logistics Command has put out a bid for everything from microscopes to resuscitators. Price? Unknown.
Join NationofChange today by making a generous tax-deductible contribution and take a stand against the status quo.
Millions go to an intelligence operation whose early Guantanamo interrogations may have fed tips to the U.S. manhunt that tracked Osama bin Laden to his hideout in Pakistan this year. It continues to interrogate some of the captives and maintains risk assessments on each one.
A guard with four years in the Navy, with the rank of Petty Officer 3rd class, gets $2,985.84 a month, including the same hazardous duty pay as they'd pull in Kabul. A Navy commander with 15 years but no kids gets $7,840 a month, including hazardous duty pay.
But Guantanamo's a place where today an Army colonel can talk about "the battle rhythm" of the camps, have his family on the base and his kids in the base's school system, which currently has 247 kids.
Prison staffers have their own gym, housing and newsletter, dining rooms and first-run movie theater at "Camp America," adjacent to the camps. They have their own chapel, mental health services and mini-mart that was recently peddling a $99.99 SCUBA "bodyglove" and tacky souvenirs such as Cuba Libre-Gitmo fridge magnets and a full aisle of protein supplements.
Guards and other staff also cross over to the larger Navy base for the programs of any sailor or contractor pulling permanent duty on the base - a golf course and deep-sea diving, beach parties and fishing trips.
They can hit the Irish pub, which was built after the Qaida airlifts began, take classes over the Internet, which were established once the prison was opened, and can grab McDonald's drive-through on their way to work.
And that's just for the guards.
Captives and captors also have their own kitchen, health services, transportation and security services all fueled by a steady supply line.
In their cellblocks, cooperative captives get satellite television with sports, news and religious programming as well as Arabic soap operas.
Pentagon contract workers maintain a 24,000-title book, video and magazine library and are building yet another soccer field for cooperative captives.
Unless they're hunger strikers fed Ensure through tubes tethered through their nose into the stomach, each detainee is offered up to 4,500 calories a day - including lamb certified as halal, Islam's version of kosher.
"We are running a five-star resort and not a detention facility for terrorists," says Florida Republican Rep. Allen West, the fiscal conservative and former Army lieutenant colonel who toured the facility in March. "For example, why do they need 24 cable TV channels?"
Soldiers and sailors consistently gripe that the Internet is slow inside their private quarters, which mostly range from trailer parks to townhouses.
But, unlike in Afghanistan, some prison camp staff officers have brought their families, gotten suburban-style housing and put the kids in the Navy base school. Sailors said it is better than ship duty. Sure it's surrounded by water. But you get private quarters, scuba diving and can check in on weekends at guest housing complete with big-screen TVs and backyard patio with barbecue grill.
"This is great. You get the opportunity to serve your country and nobody's shooting at us. Plus, there's no mortars coming in," said Staff Sgt. Fred Plimpton, 55, who was a New York state trooper who was dispatched to Ground Zero on 9/11 and later deployed to Baghdad.
And, it's close enough to home that members of the New York Army National Guard infantry unit now patrolling the prison camps' perimeter can race home if there's an emergency.
"Peter's wife just had a baby and we got him right home," Plimpton said in September. "Moffit's wife went into labor and we got him out of here right away. It's good to see the guys get out of here when a baby's born."
Only in an operation bursting with personnel and charter aircraft can that even happen.
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