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This falls squarely in the "concerning but I can literally do nothing about it" category for me. What am I going to do, pick the next President based on their a

This falls squarely in the "concerning but I can literally do nothing about it" category for me. What am I going to do, pick the next President based on their attitude about ship maintenance? Even if I was in the Navy, what could I do? I can only guess at what is causing this gross negligence. The fear is that bubbles of incompetence (incompetent people giving each other high-fives about how awesome they are) have grown large enough to start causing real physical and visible damage. Not sure if that's the case, though. Although I'm not buying the "rust has no operational impact" argument - as a sailor, you keep things neat and clean and tidy so that if something goes wrong it sticks out like a sore thumb. You want to catch problems early, and cleanliness helps. (Cleaning also has an inspection component that helps).

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bityard 4y ago
> What am I going to do, pick the next President based on their attitude about ship maintenance? I mean, you could. I stopped paying attention to politics when it became obvious that the two-party system is killing actual democracy. But... If a candidate said they were going to prioritize rebuilding our failing infrastructure, to include roads, bridges, power generation and transmission, communications, and defense assets, they would certainly have my attention.
- hotpotamus 4y ago
  > If a candidate said they were going to prioritize rebuilding our failing infrastructure, to include roads, bridges, power generation and transmission, communications, and defense assets If they didn't follow it up with, "and your share of the bill will be...", then I'd be pretty skeptical. Stuff costs money and you can't cut taxes and expect the government to perform all that it did before you cut them. Of course, I might be the only person in America to vote for a politician who would actually say that.

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bityard 4y ago

> What am I going to do, pick the next President based on their attitude about ship maintenance? I mean, you could. I stopped paying attention to politics when it became obvious that the two-party system is killing actual democracy. But... If a candidate said they were going to prioritize rebuilding our failing infrastructure, to include roads, bridges, power generation and transmission, communications, and defense assets, they would certainly have my attention.

hotpotamus 4y ago
> If a candidate said they were going to prioritize rebuilding our failing infrastructure, to include roads, bridges, power generation and transmission, communications, and defense assets If they didn't follow it up with, "and your share of the bill will be...", then I'd be pretty skeptical. Stuff costs money and you can't cut taxes and expect the government to perform all that it did before you cut them. Of course, I might be the only person in America to vote for a politician who would actually say that.