[lvlrsSTI]

[goodboy]

You do know that this is a ploy to get Congress to allocate more budget to defense spending right?? To feed the military industrial complex? Weapons and military craft are just about the only things manufactured in the USA now. Everything else already offshored to China, Vietnam, India, Mexico

[lvlrsSTI]

You do know that this is a ploy to get Congress to allocate more budget to defense spending right?? To feed the military industrial complex? Weapons and military craft are just about the only things manufactured in the USA now. Everything else already offshored to China, Vietnam, India, Mexico

You have a point but China is now world’s largest shipbuilder making 51% of the ships for the world after overtaking Korea (25%), it builds 20+ ships per year while the U.S. only manages to build 1-2 yearly. Chinese workers work 12 shift 7 days a week including public holidays, in the U.S. it is against Labour law to ask workers work long hours and doing OTs. The U.S. is now lagging far behind, it doesn’t matter how much funding it gets, it is short of skilled workers and shipyards, no way it can catch up with China, Korea and Japan in shipbuilding in the next 200 years.

[lvlrsSTI]

[Blin]

What not possible.
Have the intention, funds, manpower, defence budgets are Blackhole. Coming budget will be $1.2 Trin.not $750 Blin

[revealer]

The reasons y US is not good into ship building is discussed at length in here. Basically, they build only war ships. If it is cheaper for them to buy, they will buy.

https://www.quora.com/Why-has-the-US-giv...he-US-Navy

[Levin]

You have a point but China is now world’s largest shipbuilder making 51% of the ships for the world after overtaking Korea (25%), it builds 20+ ships per year while the U.S. only manages to build 1-2 yearly. Chinese workers work 12 shift 7 days a week including public holidays, in the U.S. it is against Labour law to ask workers work long hours and doing OTs. The U.S. is now lagging far behind, it doesn’t matter how much funding it gets, it is short of skilled workers and shipyards, no way it can catch up with China, Korea and Japan in shipbuilding in the next 200 years.

I think the US' aim is not to move the shipbuilding industry back to US but to destroy China's shipbuilding industry. As long as the shipbuilding industry moves to somewhere else, like South Korea, USA is okay with it.

[lvlrsSTI]

The reasons y US is not good into ship building is discussed at length in here.  Basically,  they build only war ships. If it is cheaper for them to buy,  they will buy.

https://www.quora.com/Why-has-the-US-giv...he-US-Navy

 
As reported by CNN last year even building warships China is 253 times faster than the U.S. navy. The reason is simple. Due to globalisation and high labor costs the U.S. has moved shipbuilding to cheaper countries 20 years ago as a result it has lost all the skilled workers and 50% of shipyards have been closed. Now the U.S. realizes China has more warships & is building more in rapid speed and wants to catch up, too late already, where to find so many skilled workers at low cost and how soon can the U.S. build new shipyards? Most importantly where is budget required to make it happen? News said the U.S. navy needs at least 350 billions.

[lvlrsSTI]

I think the US' aim is not to move the shipbuilding industry back to US but to destroy China's shipbuilding industry. As long as the shipbuilding industry moves to somewhere else, like South Korea, USA is okay with it.

How to destroy China’s shipbuilding industry? Fighting a war? It is a typical loser attitude, if it can’t win it will kill the winner.