Political Quotes

“No one comes here to increase the deficit. No one comes here to dismantle America's might. But just last night, the new majority voted for a budget for the next 2 years that increases the annual operating deficit and in turn the national debt. Today we are going to have a choice of whether or not we are going to dismantle America's industrial might. I have to my left, and I hope the television camera can show this, one of the 66 jewels of America's industrial might. It is so huge that this 990-foot warship appears to be but a toy when compared to that overall industrial facility. It is called Ingalls Shipbuilding and is one of the six remaining shipyards in America that build ships to defend our country. This agreement would preclude any chance Ingalls Shipbuilding ever has of in the long run staying in business. And that is what it comes down to. You see, as mentioned before, during the Reagan years there was talk of a 600-ship Navy and therefore people like Ingalls and Newport News would have plenty of work building those ships. We are now looking at a 150-ship Navy, which means there is not work for all six of them. If we do not find commercial work for those yards, they will simply go out of business. Why is that important? This island nation during World War II had to build 16,000 ships to save itself from Japan and Nazi Germany.”