Your Tax Dollars At Work (UPDATED)

Widespread Problems On LPDs, Other Ships: U.S. Navy

Inspectors are rechecking every pipe weld aboard every ship built in the last several years at Avondale, La., or Pascagoula, Miss., including destroyers and small- and big-deck amphibs, after discovering so many problems that all pipe welders and Navy inspectors at both yards had to be decertified and then recertified to work on ships.

Not to mention:

Inspectors are looking at the entire San Antonio class of amphibious transport docks to determine what has caused systemic lube oil problems in multiple ships, as well as damage to engine bearings that recently sidelined the newest ship, New York.

All hail the free market!

(EXTRA FUN 22 January @ 1925): We had no idea. We pay little attention to the trivial & mundane (like money) but if pressed we would have estimated around $500 billion, plus the off-the-books trillion or so that Bush managed to get. From this apocalyptic fantasy.