re: Proposed Base Closures

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The Portsmouth Naval shipyard is a base. As are all of the DOD owned shipyards.

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i should have been clearer- the story was about shipbuilding jobs. are there foreign shipbuilders whose projects we can cut first? if not, maybe there's a legit reason this one is on the chopping block. just because a representative of the workers there says it's unjustified and wholly political doesn't make it so

OTOH, people need to be aware that cutting defense spending has costs other than readiness (although i do believe that we can easily take a nontrivial cut in spending there without making us less safe in earnest)

our defense spending is also a huge middle-class jobs program, and an effective mobility program as well