Posted on 09/17/2023 11:04:02 PM PDT by Reverend Wright
PASCAGOULA, Miss.—A $13.3 billion program to safeguard American interests in the Arctic has run aground on an old industrial challenge: cutting and shaping thick, hardened steel.
U.S. officials are racing to procure new polar icebreakers because one of only two that the Coast Guard now sails has reached the end of its life, and the one assigned to the Arctic is out of service for maintenance every winter. Delivery of the first new icebreaker has slipped to 2028 from 2024 as designers, engineers and welders grapple with something the U.S. hasn’t done in decades: reliably shape hardened steel that is more than an inch thick into a curved, reinforced ship’s hull.
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“To consolidate their power the leftists decided to deindustrialize America in order to crush the middle class and now we are reaping the whirlwind.”
+1000000
That’s funny!
Free Traitors have sealed our doom. Along with jobs that were FOOLISHLY exported so was the “know how”.
#4 No import tariff
All we need is a tariff and the will to make it so.
Umm a few righties were in on the offshoring action.
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