re: #137 goddamnedfrank

Imagine if instead of more nuclear super-carriers we built some equivalently sized nuclear hospital / relief vessels that could respond rapidly, providing immense amounts of shore power, electricians, engineers & equipment, food, potable desalinated water, supplies, search & rescue teams and helicopter victims back for emergency medical services after natural disasters. Imagine how much the United States’s standing in the world could be improved if instead of using our immense military budget to engage in nebulous conflicts for dubious gain we used it to help people in their direst circumstances.

Wingnuts would never go for it. All they’d see is “other people” benefiting from “their” tax dollars.