And that is the heart of the matter. Pork and buyoff. Establishment Republicanism doesn't want to stop Democrats; they only wish to replace them and be better Democrats.
General dynamics Land division is owned by CHRYSLER.
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While I won’t argue that pork issues aren’t in play, one has to remember that whatever “The Army” says it wants right now, is what the Obama Administration wants. In this case, keeping the industrial base/ pipeline which produces essential military hardware open, is a good thing. It takes a long time to refit the industrial base to produce the necessary military equipment needed in time of crisis. This is one of the few times I will applaud the move by Congress to spend the money (with the understanding that it will be no where near as efficient as we all want it to be, and there is lots of room for improvement).
Well, I would argue the contrary.
The question becomes are we willing to go out of the tank business? Are we willing to bring to an end the knowledge and skills within the minds and hands of the tank builders and scrap the tooling and machines that exist at the Lima plant forever.
$120 million is a rounding error .0001 of the budget
One wonders though..since the Army is now lead by Obamabots that the declaration that they don’t want any more tanks, is not exactly free of political agenda.
Everything in the country has been corrupted beyond the rational and the leadership of the military is no exception.
I don’t know if they need these tanks or not, but I don’t believe the Obamabot Generals either.
Seriously,if they shut down the tank plant in Lima and layoff all the workers,what would it cost to restart the place?And how long would it take to restart?
This is not pork, congress is actually being wiser here than our military which is under political pressure to make drastic cuts. If the military shuts down the Abrams production line it would take years to start it back up. So, if we got into a serious conflict with a major power like Russia or China or even into a protracted war with a smaller power like North Korea we would be in trouble if the tank production line was not running to replace our losses.