Economics And Ship Acquisition
Eagle 1 points to some fun graphs, including an interesting historical comparison by Econbrowser.
what if George W. Bush had lived in 480 BCE; would we all be speaking Persian?
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June 8th, 2006 at 11:54 am
0 Frigates? I’m no Navy guy but to be honest from what I’ve read there seems to be a gaping capability hole between what the LCS is supposed to end up as and a DDG….
June 8th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
Phestival of Phuture Phleet Phorecasts
Get a nice beverage, relax and head on over to Chap’s latest snag; the CBO’s May ’06 “Options for the Navy’s Future Fleet.”
This thing is just loaded with good info, but I will let you dig out your own jewels. I will just quote from my favorit…
June 11th, 2006 at 11:52 am
Hey congress sets the budget and the President spends. Last time I looked all three branches of government was completly dominated by one party. “The Navy prepares for war with the buget they have, not the buget they wished they had.”….
Massive debt caused by a president on a borrow and spend mania, tight wad republican congress catering to the rich whom don’t want to pay tax, corrupt lobby/congress relationships….well, what choice does the Navy have? Answer-None.
June 11th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
Sal,
I sympathize with the depth of feeling, but recommend focusing your discontent a little. The deficit is not due to the cost of military ops, although that is a contributing factor. We’re spending a lot on entitlements programs, too. Check folks like the Club for Growth or some of the Reaganite or libertarian sites to see specifics of what they’re grumping about.
I dealt with the bounds of the problem facing the Navy’s shipbuilding desires here and recommend you take a look. Summarized: we can’t buy overseas for political and risk aversion reasons, we can’t take a bigger share of the service pie, we have many folks pulling us in different directions, we build really inefficiently and don’t have the competition that would improve the cost, as Phibian mentioned we’ve got a revolving retiree-to-contractor door, congressmen in Louisiana would like us to buy failed cruise ships for the Navy to help the company, et cetera. Even if one could “throw the bums out” we’d still have a wicked problem; even with “the budget we have” there are options that are possible but not likely to be implemented because they’re too hard for one person to implement.