[GATOR NAVY]

And I thought the decommissioning and sinking of the Spurance-class destroyers prior to the end of their service lives was insane-this makes that look like kiddie play. The Navy doesn't mothball nukes. If this ship is decommed, it isn't coming back into service.

I also notice it's not mentioned whether or not GW would replaced with another forward-deployed CVN.

[Cicero]

Insane. Save $7 billion? That’s less than Stephen Chu can give away in a few days to Obama’s green energy cronies.

[Truth29]

Another Obama effort to make sure the USA sinks to second world status ASAP.

[Shimmer1]

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[ken21]

wasn’t that a corollary in obama-soros’ thinking—

that if you borrow trillions of dollars eventually

you’ll have to cut the military?

the left hates the u.s. intervening abroad.

[Coldwater Creek]

Well, budget cuts have gotten rid of the renta-cops on the gate at our base. I have always thought that active duty troops should man them. They do a heck of a lot better job security wise.

[sten]

they’ll never cut the pensions of public employees pulling in $100-300k/yr

but they sure won’t slow down to cut anything relating to the military

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Obama is going to borrow $1,400 BILLION next year. They want to say $0.7 BILLION next year by mothballing the George Washington. That is 0.05% of the shortfall.

Typcial Dems — expose our flanks to our enemies, leave us defenseless and vulnerable. While not making a spit’s worth of difference to the annual deficit.

[FreeAtlanta]

Obama and the left figure they can disarm us and end our space lead by bankrupting us. It is going as planned.

Are they Treasonous and working for our enemies? You betcha.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Why not just dock it somewhere, and lease space for bistros, and organic farmers’ markets? You could raise even more money, by selling guided tours of the ship to Chinese tourists. /moonbat

[rlmorel]

I made graphic when the stimulus was being "debated". Liberals think they can solve our budget problems by gutting the military, but Donald Rumsfeld (who I saw speak up in Boston last week) said it best: It isn't the military making us go broke, it is entitlements. This should put it into perspective, the madness of this Socialist Marxist government trying to destroy us:

[Kakaze]

the associated risk to military readiness would be “significant but acceptable.”

I guess this depends upon what the definition of signifigant and acceptable, IS

I think I'm going to be sick.

[olezip]

That’s the second time this week the 25-year-old behemoth has been mentioned as a potential fiscal casualty. In budget analysis released Tuesday, officials from the Center for New American Security, a Washington, D.C. think tank with close ties to President Barack Obama, listed the early decommissioning of the ship as a way to save up to $7 billion over the next decade.

Does this think tank want to save $7 billion, or do they want to weaken the armed forces of the USA? Barack Obama is doing a good job of weakening our country by watering down the military with social experiments, green experiments, trashing R&D, cutting back on new aircraft, and mothballing active warships.

Would Ronald Reagan have gone in this direction?

[Jeff Head]

Obama is an enemy to this nation.

He has accomplished more in three years to damage this nation than all of the enemies combined over our 230+ year history.

Without a forward deployed carrier group in Japan, and the carrier that back it up, the WESTPAC in its entirety would be at much greater risk, particularly as Red China continues to Rise.

[Chode]

and America takes another one in the........

[magslinger]

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[A.A. Cunningham]

The openly homo Jared Polis D-CO; principally representing the People's Republic of Boulder, has introduced legislation proposing this nonsense.

[mrsmith]

I’m shocked that ‘a Washington, D.C. think tank with close ties to President Barack Obama’ didn’t recommend spending trillions to convert it to run on solar and wind power.

Must want to keep open the option of selling it to China if he’s reelected...

[Iron Munro]

We all know how Obama likes to claim he is cutting spending by stating he is eliminating some future expenditure that would never have been made anyway. Like cutting $15 trillion in spending by not building a base on Jupiter in 2025.

Well, how about cutting future spending and reducing the deficit by swearing that we will never, ever build a ship that is named after Obama.

No carrier for you, Barack!

[Pan_Yan]

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