No ships east of Suez.
US defense is not a jobs program. If that's the #1 argument you can muster, then there is no useful purpose for the fleet at current size.
Lost jobs are of secondary importance. What would it do to our national security?
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Since we’re cutting back all these troops and fleets, we’re gonna start hearing about cutbaacks in cushy command jobs that are no longer needed...right?
Yeah, keep slapping the sh*t out of us here in Hampton Roads, 0bama. I guess Virginia dared step on your toes one time too many, huh?
FUBO!
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Pretty soon, Joint Forces will refer to cannibis the way this is going. And the 2nd Fleet will come in dead last in the world, even in mothballs.
Barney Frank mentioned slashing the DoD budget by $1 T.
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Gutting security for the sake of our enemies.
This isn’t just guns or butter. There’s not enough butter anyway. We’re just throwing away the churns.
2008 Election Results - Norfolk
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Obama - 62,819
McCain - 24,818
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Seriously, Norfolk. Do you think a Navy guy like McCain would close down the biggest port on the Atlantic Ocean?
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The Kenyan Clown intends to destroy our military.
I could see them decommissioning the Sixth Fleet first. With the end of the Cold War that fleet lost most of its purpose in the Med.
If we are cutting defense, lets cut it at the very top - we don’t need the currrent commander and chief.