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Call it a military aid with benefits, but the US has found a shrewd way to support Ukraine while simultaneously giving its defense industry a hearty pat on the back. ....
We ought to be doing right now, as we grow the economy, we have to be able to manage each of the programs. it doesn t mean we can t become as efficient as possible with regard to our defense budget but i ll give you one example. when you talk about the aircraft on board our carriers, the f/a-18 hornets, 60% of them right now are not operational. you can t go to war with only 40% of your aircraft on aircraft carriers that are operational today. we ve got three nuclear attack submarines that are setting not a depot but at dock. the boise has been there for more than three years. we don t have the resources or the capabilities to get them back into service. let me interrupt politely, senator. let me be precise. no cuts, an increase in defense spending but you want to start cutting entitlement spending, social security, medicare and medicaid to pay for the $1.5 trillion deficit increase? no. well, explain. ....