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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Feb 2014
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Warsaw is lovely this time of year...
On 4/19/14, 4:15 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 12:35:52 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:
The Pentagon dreams up ways to keep boys in uniform, officer billets
filled, and defense contractors happy.
Congress does that
DoD is the country's biggest jobs program. It is something that is
pretty much all "buy American".
When we build bridges, high speed trains or other projects, there is
always a high input of off shore product in the mix.
The USS Zumwalt, which we are discussing here, has four Rolls-Royce gas
turbine engines for propulsion and generation of electricity. *Not*
pretty much all "buy American." It's not so easy to find out where the
steel for the hull and superstructure was fabricated. Won't it be
interesting if we bought that "offshore," too?
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