[US Navy Vet]

Oh great let’s kill what little is left of the US Civil Shipbuilding industry. I BLANKING HATE CONGRESS!

[parsifal]

But, maybe this will put US shipbuilders to work building ships. A strong nation ought to be able to build its own ships, and its own cars, and its own tanks, and planes, and TVs.

parsy, who is southern

[Vince Ferrer]

The first problem is that there isn't much of a shipbuilding industry in the U.S. outside of the Navy anyway. Is congress going to finance a facility? Second, right now there is tremendous overcapacity in almost every class of large ship, so we could really get good deals by buying used right now, if there is an actual use for them.