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Yesterday, this was the discussion and the message was “We need this government spending, because I work there!”

Some government spending is more important than other government spending. We have gotten to the point where we have one shipyard that can build nuke carriers (Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Newport News, Virginia), and one shipyard that can build nuke submarines (Electric Boat Groton, Connecticut). When NASA lays off 4000 or so engineers, we (The US) will reduce our engineering capabilities even further. The UK had to contract Electric Boat to get their Astute class nuke submarine finished, because they lacked the engineering/software skill in country.

We are heading for the same disaster, with no one to turn to for help. I'll happily pay my tax dollars to keep our industrial base number one.

You have a muslim running the country destroying yet we need to build more subs and carriers. To protect us from what? This is like Rome where the legions were off fighting but the country (city state/empire) was being destroyed from within.

Oddly even people here cannot comprehend that the country is broke.

You bring up an excellent point. With the elimination of these jobs comes the elimination or reduction in skills. I try to tell people we are in worse shape capabilities wise than wee were before WW2. At the onset of WW2 we had considerable production facilities established and people with acquired skills. Today many shipyards have been closed and many defense related production facilities not just closed but tooling destroyed and the factories leveled.

You are not going to go down the street and find the engineers and rocket scientist just anywhere.

As for Navy carrier production facilities One can build them now and only two can give an extensive overhaul. Both are within 10 air miles of each other. Only one can do the actual reactor work as well including reactor refueling.

In the same way you won't just walk out and find engineers and rocket scientist you just don't walk out and find ship builders either especially for a nuclear propulsion system. When ones such as these are let go the future ones are discouraged from even trying due to a ever decreasing field.