Posted on 07/11/2005 10:19:47 AM PDT by mr_hammer
Good post.
Pinging.
Who needs a Navy anyway, certainly not the free traders that have destroyed US industries. Keep shooping at Wal-mart folks. Go Free Trade Go! And don't forget to keep voting GOP too.
"(The level of sarcasm contained in this comment would ordinarilly involve the use of language inappropriate to these forums)"
Sarcasm is the coolest thing ever.
Can you believe some people don't like it?
Reminds of me of the Soviet Union's waining days. We're falling apart.
How soon before someone suggests nuking China...?
We only have 33 submarines?
".....due to corruption and union thugs."
Anything to back this up?
Hey...lets nuke China...lol
It starts in 5 minutes.
I still don't understand why we're so afraid of China. So what if they build up their military ? So did the Soviet Union, and look what happened to them. Let them waste their money.
So long as China has a communist government, they will forever experience internal difficulties and never be able to focus totally on external issues. China will never attack us, because they could never sustain their supply lines. History tells us that.
Don't you think the threat of not being able to sell us stuff will shape their foreign policy ? We've lived a long time without Chinese goods. We can live without them in the future if we want. Without our trade they have major problems (as do we, but that's another discussion). Why should we build up our military to match them ? Does anyone here ever think we'd go to war with a nuclear China (thank you bill clinton) ?
I trust that Rumsfeld is just working to implement a sensible policy that uses off the shelf components where they can be used reliably and with a major cost reduction. I would bet that we're generally avoiding Chinese sources and buying overseas from suppliers in Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, etc. (Obvious reason is that the Chinese would cut off supplies in the event of a military conflict with them.)
Somebody find Milton Friedman and have him explain why this is a good idea. He did so well with the volunteer army...
You are correct. Off the shelf works fine for field rations and oil filters. The more technical/capability specific, the fewer suppliers. It will be interesting to see the cost that foriegners will be charging us to move military freight oversease once the vessels are getting attacked.
I've been a sarcastic SOB all my life. I even throw in a dollop of cynicism!
I also like to tell outlandish lies to gullible people.
I trust that his judgement has not improved much since he supported Ford over Reagan in 1976. He's done nothing to clean out the Clinton era bureaucrats that were installed in the Pentagon. Apparently, he is sold on send/sailing the gals into combat as well. The US will pay a price for this someday, but likely it will be nobody in his family paying the price.
We don't need a navy when we can fly 60 year old Buffalos out of Kansas. Right?
I think out sourcing out military to china is a thought, china could fight the war on terror, and we could have our troops here patrolling our borders...
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MATSON:
Last American Flag Steamship Line
Purchases American Built Container Ships
http://www.Matson.com
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Perhaps ships and the shipbuilding industry are going the way of horse-drawn carts and buggy-whip manufacturers.
http://www.manufacturingnews.com/
This site hangs black crepe. Most articles are pessimistic, sky-is-falling stories.
Which may be true. But it's very depressing.
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