Quality Construction at a Price That’s Right 0
This is the “entitlement spending” that needs must be controlled (emphasis added):
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The first ship of its class, the San Antonio has been beset with problems since its commissioning more than four years ago. It cost more than $1.4 billion, 70 percent more than originally budgeted, and came in two years late.
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The repair bill for the latest fixes will top $39 million, the Navy has said.
The first ship of its class. No doubt its successors will be even classier.
The cost of this one rust bucket would run Amtrak for more than two years or feed thousands of hungry persons or replace dozens of failing bridges and roads.
Instead, we have a crew of sailors with nothing to sail and a hole in the water absorbing endless money.
