Should the US Navy move the fleet out of harm's way?

[Kapitan]

In russia businesses are given a small tax relief if they sponsour ships in the navy, this is the big reason why they have now got borey alexander nevisky st petersburg and another one building plus another borey in build and a few other surface ships.

Ship building in russia and churning out numbers like these right now means its close to cold war builds, buisness contribute about 1/3rd of the navies buget which means the russians have 1/3rd more money to play with each year.

Last year they navy spent $4.3 billion its projected this year to have spend at least $5 billion, figures the USA can ill afford at the moment, with china ruining the american economy with its cheap and nasty imports the only two countries set to win here are russia with her oil and gas, and china with her plastic crappy products.

I do believe that earlier this year putin did annouce plans to regenerate the submarine base at gremikha, this would be a cost of what ive seen (i have been to gremikha and its really the PITS !) it would cost a good $50 million.

Inside 10 years russia has plans to out every cold war piece of equipment it has and re build, and its replaceing stuff at the rate of 2 to 1.

To compair america is building at the rate of 1 to 3, so is it no wonder why america asked for the 1000 ship navy, from its allies?

The current USN is a fleet of around 500 ships and submarines in total, current russian fleet is 366 in total, and the chinese fleet is around 300, us brits can just about manage our 140 ship navy.

One reason the USN transformed the 4 ohio class SSBN's is because the cost of maintaining thiem in thier SSBN role, they could have easily kept on and re modeld a few newer 688i's but what they have now in the new SSGN is a very good platform, that costs less.

The americans are second in SSBN count something they have not been since 1995, russia maintains 17 SSBN's and all are ready for sea (inc ones in refit), america has just 14.(incl ones in refit)

as it stands our enemy is not russia, its our own spending habbits last week the stock market too a huge slump the dollar finnished at $2.06 to £1 ive never seen it that high ever, the lowest i have ever seen was $1.48 to £1 to have that turn out in about 10 years is really shocking.

But why is the economy failing?

the west enforces a thing called healthy and safty, in england we cant take a ****e without confirming it with 3 managers and having the proper safty gear to make sure it plops down the pan correctly.
Now your wearing all that gear it will slow you down simple.

The government here says well you must have 4 weeks paid holiday a year minimum
Workers time off ! and paid !!!!!

We have a minimum wage system to make sure no one lives in or under the red line.
This can cause inflation as it has to rise each year.

so why are those things a problem?

China does not enforce safty gear for thier workers, which means they are not wearing body armour and safty helmets just to moniter computers, which means they will work a little faster.

They dont get paid holidays if anything most chinese will work a 16 hour day, the most any of us is 12 (unless your truck driving they maybe more)

china doesnt have the minimum wage system the worker is paid what the employer wants, it keeps inflation down productivity up and cheap labour means also cheaper goods at a faster rate.