https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/l...AAXr1Cv?cvid=e58c2b99f3ff4eaebf5cf05241437941 Given that Lockheed Martin has a facility in the last town I taught in this has special meaning to me. Back when I subbed there I saw just how much of a positive impact Lockheed Martin had on the school and community.
Turns out the refueling probes are going to be built in Northwest Arkansas not at Camden But the following is good news, the MLRS systems ARE built in Camden and the U.S. is going to supply them to Ukraine!!! https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...advanced-rocket-systems/ar-AAXVqlw?li=BBnb7Kz
It creates jobs? We could create jobs by improving things like infrastructure. Why spend so much money blowing things up? America first, amiright? In my opinion, that includes roads, water, electricity, etc.. At least, it should.
I would prefer the U.S. built more and more weapons. I don't give a rats ass about infrastructure. It always backfires. like better roads inevitably end up in motorists driving faster. More dangerously.
Why are oilers so expensive? They aren't that much cheaper than a fully armed frigate with all the latest toys built in. https://news.usni.org/2022/06/22/ha...ense-topline-restores-5-littoral-combat-ships $923.8 million for another Constellation-class frigate, $746 million for another T-AO-205 John Lewis-class oiler and $695 million for two Expeditionary Medical Ships.
There are skills and trades a country doesn't want to die out or reduced to nothing, so if it takes 'busy work' to keep those skills honed for a cadre to train others in the future then by all means do so; and, since they get paid, and so do the suppliers, the money gets recirculated back into the economy anyway. 'Outsourcing' everything never really lowered prices to consumers anyway, just piled up more cash for stockholders and bankers at the top of the pyramid, where they sit on it or lobby for yet more govt. guaranteed profits for themselves, and the labor racketeers in Mexico and Red China get a lot richer as well.