The Navy is under-equipped because the Oklahoma Republican operates under the delusion that taxes are unnecessary (Inhofe signed the Norquist pledge) and that i

The Navy is under-equipped because the Oklahoma Republican operates under the delusion that taxes are unnecessary (Inhofe signed the Norquist pledge) and that in general, private enterprise is _always_ better at things than government enterprise. This is not the military-industrial complex any more - this is the deliberate bleeding dry of government coffers by using the military as a money extraction machine. It's not feeding itself any more, at this point it's pure value extraction until things collapse.