AL Senators: Navy needs full order of 52 Littoral Combat Ships

[al_liberal]

LCS critical to Navy mission

Sessions and Shelby, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., have written a letter to President Barack Obama asking that the full order of 52 LCS be included in the Navy's 30-year shipbuilding plan that's part of the 2015 budget proposal.

The lawmakers said LCS is a "fast, versatile, fuel-efficient, highly capable, and relatively inexpensive ship. Moreover, it meets three critical warfighting needs the Navy has consistently deemed essential to its mission.

"Additionally, tens of thousands of hardworking Americans have jobs that depend on the continued construction of these valuable ships. The failure to produce all 52 Littoral Combat Ships would significantly reduce the size of our fleet, set back the Navy's shipbuilding program for decades, and thus damage America's national security. Truncating this important program would also harm our recovering economy."

Al_liberal comment:

When those "tens of thousands of hardworking Americans" have jobs that depend on the US auto industry...well to fucking bad.

Oh, I almost forgot...we have a spending problem and our Government is way to fucking big

[Warren Stupidity]

1. weve heard rumors that somebody somewhere is building naval ships!

what? that was us? shhh...

[TwilightGardener]

2. The Pentagon does not want the full order. But, it's a jobs and defense industry program,

has little to do with actual defense needs, as always. How is the DoD supposed to cut anything if Congress won't let it?