[buccaneer81]

Of course, I looked recently at how much it cost to build the latest carrier, and it was over $6B.

Not nearly as pricey as the space shuttles (not that I'm complaining; I wish we had 10 of them.) But to build a shuttle today would take at least $8 billion (Endeavour cost $5 billion in 1991.)

[rlmorel]

This is how many Nimitz class carriers we could build with the first stimulus money bucket:

Staggering, eh? And that was simply the first $800 Billion.