This is old news:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...st-guard_x.htm

But, I was driving home from the post office earlier and turned on Hush
Bimbo's radio show, to see what message he was giving his audience of loyal
droolers today. "We conservatives stand for this that & the other things,
and giving our troops what they need to protect this country".

Except for the Coast Guard.


"The Bush administration wants to increase the amount of time it will take
to replace a fleet that's among the oldest on the globe - older even than
fleets owned by nations such as Algeria and Pakistan. The "deepwater"
replacement program, conceived in 1998 as a $20 billion, 20-year plan to
replace the fleet, could be increased to 25 years under a White House plan."

Stephen Flynn, a maritime security expert and former Coast Guard officer,
says the agency is "operating at the level, in many instances, of a Third
World navy."