So, uh, what’s your guy’s victory garden like? Yall producing enough food for yourself so we can send our home grown food to the front line? I mean it was vital to national security at one point, or would that be cost prohibitive in 2023, and something we can address if the need arises… Likewise, I have only a very surface level knowledge of raising chickens, however if the Federal Government gave me a million dollars, up front, and paid me $100 per chicken delivered, you bet your ass I’d be the best damn chicken farmer I could be.
That’s how I view everyone arguing about saving out handful of little ship yards. Take for example, the Kaiser yard in Richmond CA still has the graving docks, it’s still got active rail access, and plenty of room to stage modular ship parts. It makes no sense to be building a ship a day, but it’s not rocket surgery, we can figure it out quicker than it would take Brownsville to build one ship, given proper funding.
It would take some flexing of imminent domain, or whatever they call seizing your property for the war effort, but there’s just as much rail connected industrial space (and mostly parking lot) in Richmond as the yard in Onsan, ROK. The free market hasn’t turned it into condos yet, which would throw a wrench in this plan, but the US could still build ships here push come to shove. We can’t say Taco Tuesday is in peril because there are no tacos today, when we have all the ingredients in the fridge.
