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Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: GOP Spend spend spend... ()
Date: March 11, 2017 01:51PM

If the data you need to release to the public is potentially embarrassing, there's always classification review to the rescue.

The US Government Accountability Office deleted details of cost overruns on two of the Navy's littoral combat ships from a report on shipbuilding contracts, at the request of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review.

The review referred to the financial tidbit on the USS Milwaukee and the USS Jackson as "sensitive but unclassified" in a footnote, according to Anthony Capaccio of Bloomberg News, who first reported the news.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Ujde ()
Date: March 11, 2017 02:01PM

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: XCY ()
Date: March 11, 2017 03:32PM

Good. We need them.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: UwEtr ()
Date: March 11, 2017 03:36PM

Trump ran as an anti-establishment Republican.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: More Drones ()
Date: March 11, 2017 03:40PM

XCY Wrote:
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> Good. We need them.

We already have way too many ships. Nobody uses ships any more. It's all drones.

Trump has no clue what is he doing. A eight year old could do a better job.

Build a wall and get more ships? LMAO!

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: McHale's Navy ()
Date: March 11, 2017 03:43PM

More Drones Wrote:
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> XCY Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Good. We need them.
>
> We already have way too many ships. Nobody uses
> ships any more. It's all drones.
>
> Trump has no clue what is he doing. A eight year
> old could do a better job.
>
> Build a wall and get more ships? LMAO!

I can tell you're a real military expert. Do you work at the Pentagon?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_People's_Liberation_Army_Navy_ships

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: SearchingForTheSSMinnow ()
Date: March 11, 2017 03:45PM


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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Drone Killer ()
Date: March 11, 2017 03:46PM

More Drones Wrote:
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> XCY Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Good. We need them.
>
> We already have way too many ships. Nobody uses
> ships any more. It's all drones.
>
> Trump has no clue what is he doing. A eight year
> old could do a better job.
>
> Build a wall and get more ships? LMAO!


Brain power not really your strong suit eh?

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: McHale's Navy ()
Date: March 11, 2017 03:54PM

Drone Killer Wrote:
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> More Drones Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > XCY Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Good. We need them.
> >
> > We already have way too many ships. Nobody
> uses
> > ships any more. It's all drones.
> >
> > Trump has no clue what is he doing. A eight
> year
> > old could do a better job.
> >
> > Build a wall and get more ships? LMAO!
>
>
> Brain power not really your strong suit eh?

Reminds me of a former co-worker who told me 20 years ago the infantry was obsolete because of new technology. Sad thing was her dad was a career Army
officer and she'd grown up on military bases all over the world.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: nobody uses ships? ()
Date: March 11, 2017 04:02PM

More Drones Wrote:
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> XCY Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Good. We need them.
>
> We already have way too many ships. Nobody uses
> ships any more. It's all drones.
>

That's what Strategic Air Command insisted back in 1949.
Yet, we still have ships. I just hope Trump gets a good deal on them (hint - don't buy anything from Lockheed.)

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: PUGNT ()
Date: March 11, 2017 04:04PM

Funny watching these anti-Trump OP's get their dumb ass laughed off of every thread.

But the RUSSIANS did it!!!

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Republican Spend spend spend ()
Date: March 11, 2017 04:50PM

PUGNT Wrote:
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> Funny watching these anti-Trump OP's get their
> dumb ass laughed off of every thread.
>
> But the RUSSIANS did it!!!


You be blind to the fact that Trump is running up the largest spending in the history of the US government. So far Trump added and ADDITIONAL $3 TRILLION SPENDING.

Balancing what? Typical republicans robbing and plundering taxpayers.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Taj MaNavy ()
Date: March 11, 2017 05:01PM

It not just the cost to build the ships. That's just the beginning. There is still the cost to run the ships. You're talking billions more for years.

Republicans were the ones that got rid of the ships because they were useless.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Libs ()
Date: March 11, 2017 06:13PM

What did republicans expect from Trump. All Trump has ever done is spend other peoples money. Why do you think Trump has gone bankrupt some many times.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: What a Waste ()
Date: March 11, 2017 07:52PM

15 years of development and the ship is just able to fire a missile.

February 28th, the Freedom class Littoral Combat Ship USS Detroit fired a Hellfire missile for the first time. The event came nearly three years after the Navy identified the Hellfire Missile to replace the cancelled XM-501 Non Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) missile system. It was not only the first time a Hellfire had been fired off from an LCS, but also the first time one had been launched vertically—or anything else that had been launched vertically from an LCS for that matter.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: mkiara ()
Date: March 11, 2017 09:08PM

What a Waste Wrote:
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> 15 years of development and the ship is just able
> to fire a missile.
>
> February 28th, the Freedom class Littoral Combat
> Ship USS Detroit fired a Hellfire missile for the
> first time. The event came nearly three years
> after the Navy identified the Hellfire Missile to
> replace the cancelled XM-501 Non Line-Of-Sight
> (NLOS) missile system. It was not only the first
> time a Hellfire had been fired off from an LCS,
> but also the first time one had been launched
> vertically—or anything else that had been
> launched vertically from an LCS for that matter.


If you're so fucking smart why aren't you the Secretary of Defense?

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Been There Done That ()
Date: March 11, 2017 09:15PM

mkiara Wrote:
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> What a Waste Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > 15 years of development and the ship is just
> able
> > to fire a missile.
> >
> > February 28th, the Freedom class Littoral
> Combat
> > Ship USS Detroit fired a Hellfire missile for
> the
> > first time. The event came nearly three years
> > after the Navy identified the Hellfire Missile
> to
> > replace the cancelled XM-501 Non Line-Of-Sight
> > (NLOS) missile system. It was not only the
> first
> > time a Hellfire had been fired off from an LCS,
> > but also the first time one had been launched
> > vertically—or anything else that had been
> > launched vertically from an LCS for that
> matter.
>
>
> If you're so fucking smart why aren't you the
> Secretary of Defense?

I have worked for the Pentagon and many other gov agencies.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: mkiara ()
Date: March 11, 2017 10:59PM

Been There Done That Wrote:
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> mkiara Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > What a Waste Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > 15 years of development and the ship is just
> > able
> > > to fire a missile.
> > >
> > > February 28th, the Freedom class Littoral
> > Combat
> > > Ship USS Detroit fired a Hellfire missile for
> > the
> > > first time. The event came nearly three years
> > > after the Navy identified the Hellfire
> Missile
> > to
> > > replace the cancelled XM-501 Non
> Line-Of-Sight
> > > (NLOS) missile system. It was not only the
> > first
> > > time a Hellfire had been fired off from an
> LCS,
> > > but also the first time one had been launched
> > > vertically—or anything else that had been
> > > launched vertically from an LCS for that
> > matter.
> >
> >
> > If you're so fucking smart why aren't you the
> > Secretary of Defense?
>
> I have worked for the Pentagon and many other gov
> agencies.

That doesn't answer my question. Try again please. (working in the mail room doesn't count)

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Bush Years ()
Date: March 12, 2017 02:20PM

Bush was the one cut the ships back because the Pentagon said they weren't effective.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Money Tree Trump ()
Date: March 24, 2017 12:19PM

Bush Years Wrote:
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> Bush was the one cut the ships back because the
> Pentagon said they weren't effective.

Bush was right! Trump doesn't have fucking clue what he is doing in the White House. Trump just wants to build more and spend more. This the same shit bankrupt the Trump empire and why most of Trump assets are controlled by bankruptcy overseers.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Spend spend spend Trump ()
Date: March 27, 2017 08:57PM

Money Tree Trump Wrote:
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> Bush Years Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Bush was the one cut the ships back because the
> > Pentagon said they weren't effective.
>
> Bush was right! Trump doesn't have fucking clue
> what he is doing in the White House. Trump just
> wants to build more and spend more. This the same
> shit bankrupt the Trump empire and why most of
> Trump assets are controlled by bankruptcy
> overseers.

At least Bush was spending in war time. Trump is just spending to spend.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Spend like a muddafugger! ()
Date: March 28, 2017 09:44AM

I'm wondering when Trump is going to start cutting the budget. Seems all Trump has done since taking office is make up new agency and spend like a muddafugger.

Where's all this money coming from?

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Trump Money Tree ()
Date: April 11, 2017 12:37PM

Considering the latest littoral combat junk of ships and the latest aircraft carriers fuck ups and over runs.

Trump might as well just throw that money right into the swamp.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Gerrymanderer2 ()
Date: April 11, 2017 12:42PM

More Drones Wrote:
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> XCY Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Good. We need them.
>
> We already have way too many ships. Nobody uses
> ships any more. It's all drones.
>
> Trump has no clue what is he doing. A eight year
> old could do a better job.
>
> Build a wall and get more ships? LMAO!

Navies project power.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/11/2017 12:43PM by Gerrymanderer2.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: It's 2017 We Don't Ships ()
Date: April 11, 2017 03:23PM

We don't need any more ships. We can need more stealth drones with better weapons capabilities.

Ships are not cost effective any more. Building a bigger NAVY is a 1950's idea.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: trumpitality ()
Date: April 11, 2017 03:51PM

Gerrymanderer2 Wrote:
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> Navies project power.


Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/11/2017 12:43PM by Gerrymanderer2.


lmao Gerry sets new standards in stupidity by having to edit 3 words twice.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Gunlover ()
Date: April 11, 2017 04:28PM

Gerry's Pakistani Navy in action.
Attachments:
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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: LCS ()
Date: April 11, 2017 05:41PM

GOP Spend spend spend... Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> If the data you need to release to the public is
> potentially embarrassing, there's always
> classification review to the rescue.
>
> The US Government Accountability Office deleted
> details of cost overruns on two of the Navy's
> littoral combat ships from a report on
> shipbuilding contracts, at the request of the
> Defense Office of Prepublication and Security
> Review.
>
> The review referred to the financial tidbit on the
> USS Milwaukee and the USS Jackson as "sensitive
> but unclassified" in a footnote, according to
> Anthony Capaccio of Bloomberg News, who first
> reported the news.

Navy guys call them Little Crappy Ships

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Gerrymanderer2 ()
Date: April 11, 2017 06:00PM

Navies dictate global dominance. Our Navy is the only real thing that differentiates us from the world. It's also the only real thing they will never be able to match.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/11/2017 06:03PM by Gerrymanderer2.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Gerrymanderer2 ()
Date: April 11, 2017 06:01PM

Especially when you're dealing with a nation blessed with the protection of vast oceans. You can get rid of everything else but let me keep the navy.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/11/2017 06:02PM by Gerrymanderer2.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Gerrymanderer2 ()
Date: April 11, 2017 06:04PM

The only reason nations fear us, the absolute only reason whatsoever is because we can park the Gerald Ford off their shore and take thier entire military out in 24 hours.

And that's a fact Jack.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/11/2017 06:04PM by Gerrymanderer2.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Where's the Money? ()
Date: April 21, 2017 03:46PM

Who's paying for all this shit?

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Gerrymanderer2 ()
Date: April 21, 2017 03:47PM

No money just more debt. Republican control equals certain death of a nation.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Spend spend spend Trump ()
Date: April 21, 2017 04:28PM

Reduce taxes and increase government spending. It's the American way. Spend spend spend spend.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Gerrymanderer2 ()
Date: April 21, 2017 04:38PM

If they balanced the budget that in itself would have a big stimulative effect, Republicans are too corrupt though. It will be another Democrats in power economic boom in the future.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Swamp Butt ()
Date: April 24, 2017 03:38PM

Gerrymanderer2 Wrote:
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> If they balanced the budget that in itself would
> have a big stimulative effect, Republicans are too
> corrupt though. It will be another Democrats in
> power economic boom in the future.

They are going to pass every single spending act they can while republicans have control.

Trump is building a bigger and better swamp. I'm sure Trump can top Reagan's debt by miles.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Cutting the Debt ()
Date: April 25, 2017 09:15AM

By the time the new ships are built they obsolete. It's not just the cost of building the ships, it also cost billions to run the ships.

The reason we got rid of so many ships was they weren't needed and to save the taxpayers billions.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Money Tree Trump ()
Date: April 25, 2017 10:32AM

God this Trump guy sure does like to spend.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Piked ()
Date: April 25, 2017 03:54PM

Money Tree Trump Wrote:
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> God this Trump guy sure does like to spend.

Hey, it's not Trumps money. Who cares right?

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Rich get Richer ()
Date: April 25, 2017 10:34PM

Piked Wrote:
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> Money Tree Trump Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > God this Trump guy sure does like to spend.
>
> Hey, it's not Trumps money. Who cares right?

To say $1 TRILLION. $1 Trillion!!!!! That could easily cover healthcare for Americans for years.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: So K! ()
Date: April 28, 2017 10:22AM

Trump needs to have his spending wings clipped. The guy spends like a drunken sailor!

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Carriers ()
Date: May 01, 2017 10:21AM

So K! Wrote:
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> Trump needs to have his spending wings clipped.
> The guy spends like a drunken sailor!

We don't need 100 aircraft carriers. Carriers cost a fortune to run and we can cover plenty of area with the existing fleet. That's why we reduced the number of ship years ago.

I don't think Trump has grasp the concept that the US navy has planes and missiles.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Waste of Taxpayer $$$$$'s ()
Date: May 01, 2017 12:52PM

It costs $160,000,000 per year to run an aircraft carrier during normal "tours."

That's $500,000 a day of taxpayer dollars that could be used to fix roads and bridges.

That's after building the carriers and not including any mission costs.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Gerrymanderer2 ()
Date: May 01, 2017 01:26PM

Waste of Taxpayer $$$$$'s Wrote:
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> It costs $160,000,000 per year to run an aircraft
> carrier during normal "tours."
>
> That's $500,000 a day of taxpayer dollars that
> could be used to fix roads and bridges.
>
> That's after building the carriers and not
> including any mission costs.

That includes personnel costs? We don't need a Navy?

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Gerrymanderer2 ()
Date: May 01, 2017 01:27PM

half a million a day is pretty cheap actually. Peanuts compared to its ability to project power.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Threats ()
Date: May 01, 2017 01:43PM

Gerrymanderer2 Wrote:
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> half a million a day is pretty cheap actually.
> Peanuts compared to its ability to project power.

What would you think if Russia or any other country parked their aircraft carrier a couple of miles off the coast the of the US?

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: MAGA!! ()
Date: July 03, 2017 09:18AM

The amount of money Trump is wasting is crazy. Navy's are obsolete. It's all drones these days.

The US has enough aircraft carriers. Even the NAVY recommended cutting the amount. Trump should listen the military and do what they want instead playing out his Hitler fastanies.

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Re: Trump to Spend Close to $1 Trillion on New Navy Ships- Same Joke as Litoral Ship With Cost Overruns?
Posted by: Defense Dollars ()
Date: July 03, 2017 10:52AM

The amount of waste and scams the defense department does is criminal. When you see huge McMansions in NOVA just remember those are your defense tax dollars.

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