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The Straight Story

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Reply to Confusious (Original post)

Wed Oct 24, 2012, 06:34 AM

Oct 2012

"During World War II the United States built 1,000 ships per year with 1,000 people employed in the Bureau of Ships, as the purchasing department of the Department of the Navy was then called. By the 1980s, we were building seventeen ships per year, with 4,000 people in purchasing. Today, when we are building only nine ships a year, the Pentagon manages the shipbuilding process with some 25,000 people." - Mitt

http://forestofwords.blogspot.com/2012/05/mitt-romneys-plan-for-military.html

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Rmoney was wrong..... again. RE Navy [View all] Confusious Oct 2012 OP

well well well grasswire Oct 2012 #1

Ronald Reagan wanted a 600 ship Navy to intimidate the Russkies. MADem Oct 2012 #2

I think Romney said that only to pick up votes in VA from Newport News area Justice Oct 2012 #3

It was the only thing that Romney has to hold on the the military liberal N proud Oct 2012 #5

Also: The Straight Story Oct 2012 #4

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