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Two never-finished Navy ships head to scrap heap


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Two never-finished Navy ships head to scrap heap

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Conservative Byte

They are the two ships no one wanted, almost constantly embroiled in one dispute or another for the past 25 years. The two Navy behemoths have never gone on a mission, were never even completed, yet they cost taxpayers at least $300 million.

Now the vessels, the Benjamin Isherwood and the Henry Eckford, are destined to leave Virginia waters for good and be scrapped at a Texas salvage yard, with no money coming back to the U.S. Treasury.

The Isherwood, stretching more than 660 feet, began its final journey this week, unceremoniously towed Tuesday from its mooring spot in the James River Reserve Fleet, also known as the “ghost fleet,” near Fort Eus-tis in Newport News.

Its destination: International Shipbreaking Limited in Brownsville, Texas, just above the Mexico border. There, the vessel will be cut up, its innards removed and disposed of, and its steel and other metals sold as recycled products

http://conservativebyte.com/2011/07/two-never-finished-navy-ships-head-to-scrap-heap/

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Our hard earned tax dollars at work!dry.gif After the first gulf war they decided to "cut back" on fighter planes in an effort to save money. So they scrapped the jets worth millions of dollars and wouldn't even let their pilots have one last moment in the plane. (a pilot gets pretty attached) Why? Why? Why? That would be like me scraping a new car of mine just cause I can't afford the insurance or the gas. Why not try to sell it, or reuse the parts? But to just scrap it??? Only in America!!!

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Our government certainly knows how to get the most mileage out of the taxpayer dollar, don't they? Unreal what they are doing to us. All of the minds, both parties, are at a new low. If this were done by a CEO of a public company, the stockholders would hang that person out to dry. Oh well, what's a few mil? And they are debating on raising the debt ceiling. Why are we here in the first place? 40 cents out of every dollar spent is borrowed? Tell your credit card company you need an increase in your limit and see what you get.

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