Agreed. Send it up your pole and see who smokes it, er, salutes it.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Simply FALSE.

CVN-73 George Washington is presently in the Atlantic conducting qualifications & training.

CVN-69 Dwight Eisenhower is deployed in the Persian Gulf.



The US Navy has 430 ships in its inventory with 70 more being planned and under construction.

Aircraft get 'scrapped' all the time and, technically, they aren't scrapped, but mothballed. I can go on about the A-10, but the short answer is that the F-35 is its replacement and is faster and more lethal. More than half of spending goes to the Pentagon and we spend more on the military than the next 16 nations combined.