[TwelveOfTwenty]

They are there to protect our shipping and to convey a message to counter the growing Imperialist actions of the CCP Dictatorship claiming Tiwanese and International waters as their splash pond.

So let me see if I understand this. We're spending money to send our Coast Guard to defend our interests from the same country that we sent our manufacturing, technology, money, and tax base to in order to save money.

Am I the only one who can see something wrong with this?

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Yep! Open Society guy Milton Friedman said we could do that, IIRC. (And a lot of democrats and some punky pubbies did too. )