[tanknetter]

Adding something else I just realized ... the Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship, which is what the USN wants to buy dozens of to replaces its Perry-class Frigates and beef up it's surface combatant fleet, is built by by Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wisconsin.

The USN wants to build somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 of them at a cost of $670.4 Million per (see Wikipedia entry on the class) - which would constitute half of the total LCS buy (the other half being the Independence-class trimaran hull type).

That works out to what? Nearly $17 BILLION that Obama seemed to indicate this evening that he'd want to take away from the Wisconsin shipbuilder?

If I were Romney I'd be sending Congressman Ryan home TOMORROW to start talking up the matter and bombarding the state with adverts about it.

[PressurePoint]

And by the way, can somebody explain to me why libs believe all government spending boosts the economy ... except military spending?