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The Navy originally said it planned to repair the submarine but the discovery of additional damage raised the cost, originally estimated to be about $450 million.
Isn't that about the cost of just ONE of the Obamas vacations?
U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King of Maine and Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire issued a statement blaming the decision to scrap the submarine on the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration.
"We are disappointed by the Navy's decision to discontinue repairs to the USS Miami. Inactivating the Miami will mean a loss to our nuclear submarine fleet — yet another unfortunate consequence of the across-the-board cuts known as sequestration. We will continue to work together to find a responsible budget solution that replaces sequestration," they said.
A "disgruntled dock worker" (translation = Union goon) caused $450 Million dollars worth of damage to a US Navy Nuclear Submarine ..... and we have to blame the Republicans because Obama insisted (and devised) a "Sequester".
Makes' perfect sense in today's world. My call would be "Treason", but that wasn't the call. The "call" is to trash the Submarine. Mission accomplished by the Leftists.
Wild borrowing and spending by Big-govt-obsessed Democrats drove the budget far beyond any territory that Republicans and other normal people could accept. The resulting cuts have now cost us one nuclear submarine. What will it cost us next?
So, you are for spending cuts in the abstract but when it comes to specific cuts, you are against them. Congratulations! You are truly a member of the GOP.
So, you are for spending cuts in the abstract but when it comes to specific cuts, you are against them. Congratulations! You are truly a member of the GOP.
GOP "specific cuts" = anything that ISN'T defense oriented.
They'd double the damn defense budget if they had their way.
Rear Adm. Rick Breckenridge, director of undersea warfare, said repairing the Groton, Conn.-based sub would have meant canceling work on dozens of other ships because of new budget constraints. He said that would've hurt the Navy's overall readiness.
"The Navy and the nation simply cannot afford to weaken other fleet readiness in the way that would be required to afford repairs to Miami," Breckenridge said in a statement.
The Navy chose to scrap the Miami and devote their resources to the dozens of others ships to ensure readiness.
The damage was originally estimated and budgeted at $450 million but damage is much worse than expected and the repair estimate has gone up significantly. The navy had originally planned to scrap the USS Maine but the US Senators from Maine -where the shipyard is located - pushed for repairs.
Not too different than the folk from Ohio who insisted the Army build new tanks they did not ask for or need. The Army already had more tanks than they needed to the point they were gifting them to Egypt.
Failure to build meant the Ohio manufacturer might need to lay off people.
It goes something like this:
$ to fund the admin of the endless welfare/entitlement programs -
$ to fund the military for equipment the military does not need or want-
Who knows? Maybe the history books will say sequestration was the best thing since sliced bread.
well since it was a union employee that caused the damage, i say make the union pay for it.
No union involved here. He was a civilian employee, a painter. He set fire within the sub because he wanted to knock off work, early. It took 100 firefighters 12 hours to put the fire out. 17 people were injured.
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