Shipbuilder Warns of Layoffs if Biden Doesn’t Buy More Destroyers

[Questerr]

Unless it gets shot down by a SAM that would not have detected the drone

That drone is currently a useless paperweight.

 

[bluesmoke]

Something about the military-industrial complex Ike warned us about

An apt statement made in his parting speech, but he never said the words "military-industrial complex". Regarding the large arms industry, he said "...we recognize the imperative need for this development...We must not fail to comprehend its grave implications we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence…The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." I think others summating all that to the military-industrial complex was accurate.

 

[braindrain]

so called "long term planning" by the Chinese is vastly overrated and overstated.

It's rather clear your understanding of geopolitics and what's going on in the world is vastly limited.

 

[danielpalos]

Shipbuilder Warns of Layoffs if Biden Doesn’t Buy More Destroyers

Bath Iron Works told Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks it will need to cut its workforce by 2,500 if more ships aren’t ordered soon.

www.defenseone.com

Not an ultimatum, but a warning that what is in the Pentagons "orders-pipeline" is not enough to retain the current shipbuilding workforce at Bath.

Right-wingers don't want to pay for them anyway with their regime of tax cut economics.

We can always use better infrastructure. And the Labor required to build it.

 

[bluesmoke]

Of course we don't need more destroyers. But what gets produced under government is decided by politics not the market, and that in a nutshell is the problem. So who has more political pull, the American people, or lobbyists for defense contractors?

Remember this is what people like you want. You want this to be decided by politics and then you complain when the politically powerful get their way.

So, you agree that we don't need more destroyers, but deride people like me not wanting more destroyers. That makes perfect nonsense.

What part of my post are you attempting to refute? What part do you agree with?