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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- The Navy has decided to scrap the USS Miami instead of repairing the nuclear-powered submarine because of budget cuts accompanied by growing costs of repairing damage from a fire set by a civilian worker at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, officials said Tuesday.
The damage was originally estimated and budgeted at $450 million but damage is much worse than expected and the repair estimate has gone up significantly. The navy had originally planned to scrap the USS Maine but the US Senators from Maine -where the shipyard is located - pushed for repairs.
And the GOP-led House and Democratic-led Senate both approved it. Neither party can escape blame for it.
the last two posts are correct. one thing however, it was obama that said that ANY attempt to mitigate the sequestration would be vetoed by him, indicating that he wanted teh sequestration cuts. so yes, you can blame the republicans for going along with the cuts, but the majority of the blame falls squarely on the democrats shoulders.
And the GOP-led House and Democratic-led Senate both approved it. Neither party can escape blame for it.
Tell that to Obama.
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Obama’s Republican-sequester-blame narrative holds the key to the public blaming the Republicans for any adverse consequences of the sequester. If there are none, then he must fabricate some (such as illegal aliens being freed from jails or capital janitors being fired). He cannot rail against his own policy; therefore he must deny that he had anything to do with it. The Republican-sequester-blame narrative holds the key to regaining the House in 2014. Not stating things truthfully is a small price to pay for the big prize.
Nothing this freak in the White House says can be considered truthful.
Wild borrowing and spending by Big-govt-obsessed Democrats drove the budget far beyond any territory that Republicans and other normal people could accept. The resulting cuts have now cost us one nuclear submarine. What will it cost us next?
Hopefully it'll cost us a few more of those subs, and a thousand other defense programs...including the one I work on.
The Pentagon needs a big chopping, and anything that chops it is good in my book.
The Pentagon needs to go back to pre-2001 levels, and then cut even more after that.
Weakened military? lol yeah minus this sub we only have enough capacity to blow up the planet five times over now.
Don't be silly Frank...why in the hell would you want to cut the amount of times we could blow up the world?
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