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1 posted on 12/06/2005 7:30:01 AM PST by Paul Ross
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How many non-Great Lakes ship building facilities are left in the US ?


2 posted on 12/06/2005 7:34:48 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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Yes, we have to fund ILLEGAL ALIENS, the pork-loaded highway bill, massive medicare expenditure, and the failed "GOVERNMENT OF LOUISIANA" --- far more important than national defense.....

Thank you George, and Washington!


3 posted on 12/06/2005 7:35:30 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: 2LT Radix jr; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; 80 Square Miles; A Ruckus of Dogs; acad1228; AirForceMom; ..

I think we are seeing an impending clash not just with the domestic spendaholics in Congress...but between the DOD and the White House/OMB which has been underfunding the Navy ship-procurements right along...and was on track to cut our subs back to only 28.


4 posted on 12/06/2005 7:36:01 AM PST by Paul Ross (My idea of American policy toward the Soviet Union is simple...It is this, 'We win and they lose.')
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Part of the problem, IMO, is not just Congress and the Administration, but the bloat at defense contractors and at the pentagon.


13 posted on 12/06/2005 2:29:34 PM PST by jjm2111 (99.7 FM Radio Kuwait - Whatever you do, don't say the 'C' word!"_)
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I believe Strategy Page has been talking about political cronyisim at some of the big Navy shipyards as creating the budget and timetable problems for them.

The Navy has been unable to bid out the ship building contracts to the most effective and efficient yards because of the Congress critters.
16 posted on 12/06/2005 2:39:46 PM PST by Wiseghy (Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. – Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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