Noah points out that the Navy has a plan to help stimulate the economy:
Tomahawk cruise missiles, MK-48 torpedoes or SM-2 air defense missiles; warfighting equipment such as small boats, riverine and coastal warfare craft, and sonobouys; ship construction of DDG-51 destroyers or Littoral Combat Ships; aircraft construction of F/A-18 strike fighters, E/A-18 electronic warfare aircraft or E-2 surveillance aircraft; vital support equipment such as that for communication network security; military construction to build needed facilities, reduce the footprint of existing facilities, and modernize; research and development (including science and technology) to identify new innovations; and short-term personnel programs to build critical skills and improve manning in junior technical ranks.
Well, good luck with that. Although we’re definitely good at spending money.
Apparently, Noah doesn’t realize that the “Defense” budget has a lot of stuff in it that has nothing to do with Defense. So $600 Billion doesn’t mean much when it’s larded with much else.
The unfunded reset of a lot of ground gear could be an area where funding now *might* generate jobs IF the contractors could and would ramp production fast enough. Replacing/repairing a lot of rolling stock that is going to have to e replaced no matter what at some point would seem worthy of consideration.
Funding new weapons systems with this bill (thinking F-35 variants, etc) wouldn’t do much to create jobs in any time-frame that would stimulate short-term employment. Just getting funds flowing faster for exiting programs that need to buy stuff now is probably best short-term stimulus you could do.
But it is all about looking good, not doing good so none of this is going to happen.
Yeah, well any of that beats this part of the stimulus package.
Gotta say that it didn’t stimulate me one little bit.
All that and he forgot CNO’s #1 accquistion priority:
MMA.
Snubbed again. I’m starting to sense a trend.