Submarines instead of schools, bridges, education?
"Both Electric Boat’s Groton facility and the Northrop Grumman shipyard in Newport News, Va., “have now gotten a lot of the cost out of the boats,†he said. “The Navy said they needed to get it down to $2 billion (per sub) in FY ’05 dollars; they’ve done that.â€
How many nuclear submarines does a nation need? And what's the mission? I'd think we could just give up on the Empire and take care of the folks at home. $2 billion a copy seems like a whole lot of money, and that's just the purchase price.