It should have shown up as already having been submitted when you added the story, just one more item here in need of repair....
bootlegga
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 6:00 am
The former government low-balled costs on just about every procurement project - remember the $9 billion price tag they trotted out for the F-35 in the 2011 election (despite the PBO projection of $26 billion)?
I'm hoping the sticker shock won't scare off the new government, but I'm skeptical. Odds are the 15 replacement ships are going to shrink to 10 or 12.
DrCaleb
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 7:07 am
bootlegga bootlegga:
Odds are the 15 replacement ships are going to shrink to 10 or 12.
Odds are. But that's what happens when they wait so long to start laying hulls. Inflation is a bitch!
andyt
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 7:54 am
And yet our inflation rate is incredibly low.
DrCaleb
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:09 am
andyt andyt:
And yet our inflation rate is incredibly low.
I don't think consumer inflation reflects on Military procurement.
andyt
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:18 am
No, there seems to be a different sort of inflation when government money is being spent. Porkflation.
uwish
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:53 am
If they want to stimulate the economy this is one of the ways. I say we need 20 ships not 12....
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But that's what happens when they wait so long to start laying hulls. Inflation is a bitch!
