You have got to be kidding me.......this is so obscene....7 BILLION dollars$$ Who's gonna call these people out huh?
Ford family celebrates beginning of aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford construction
By The Associated Press
November 14, 2009, 3:21PM
USS GERALD R. FORD.JPGGrand Rapids Press file photoThe USS Gerald R. Ford CVN 78NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Construction of the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford got its official kickoff Saturday with a keel-laying ceremony at the shipyard where the $7 billion nuclear-powered ship is being assembled.
The 38th president's daughter, Susan Ford Bales, declared the keel "truly and fairly laid" at an authentication ceremony attended by congressmen, dignitaries and shipworkers at Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding's shipyard.
Bales, the ship's sponsor, on Friday added her initials in chalk on a metal plate, which was welded to the 900-ton keel — the building block upon which the carrier will rise.
"It's an honor, first of all, to have an aircraft carrier named after my dad," Bales said in an interview before the ceremony. "I'm going to do the best job I can do to represent him."
Bales, 52, said her father learned an aircraft carrier would be named after him before his death in 2006.
"He was very moved by it," she said. "Dad was really proud of it, just incredibly proud."
The carrier, scheduled for delivery to the Navy in 2015, will be the first in the Ford-class series in honor of Ford's service in the Navy.
Ford, who joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1942, served on the light aircraft carrier USS Monterey during World War II. Aboard the Monterey, Ford served in the South Pacific and came within inches of being swept out to the sea during a typhoon in the Philippine Sea in December 1944, according to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Library.
Ford led the crew that battled a fire sparked by planes shaken loose in the storm, taking actions that some credited with saving the ship and many lives.
The ship was seriously damaged in the storm and resulting fire and had to be taken out of service. Ford spent the rest of the war ashore and was discharged in February 1946 as a lieutenant commander.
The keel-laying ceremony included many of the Ford family and dignitaries, including Ray Mabus, secretary of the Navy.
"Today signifies the official first step in the construction and delivery of this lead ship of a new class," said Mike Petters, president of shipbuilding for Northrop Grumman.
After the ceremony, the 81-foot-long, 96-foot-wide keel will be lowered in drydock 12 at the shipyard.
The Ford represents the first major carrier design change since the 1960s, when the 10-ship Nimitz class was introduced.
Since it is the Gerald Ford...
...it will probably stumble during the christening, bump it's head and sink to the bottom of wherever it is.
And Chevy Chase too!
I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...
I may not know the truth, but I know when I'm being lied to...
A floating prison by 2015 sounds good. That way, the corrupt....
bureaucrats will no longer be setting foot on this sacred land.
Ha Ha Ha...perfect
For Freedom!
For Freedom!
STUGOTS! To the high and felutent establishment!
Paultian Powerhouse!
Ready for service in 2015
Our job is to ensure that this carrier is manned with "Oath Keepers aware" Sailors and Marines. In the right hands this is a magnificent tool, in the NWO hands its our worst nightmare!
Dismantle the prison planet! Oathkeepers, arise!
Dear military personel, you are protecting plantation racism.
You are not protecting the freedoms of the people, but protecting ultimately, the oligarchy administration of vast plantations that deceitfully under the false premise initiate slavery.
Slavery due to what? Open market competition?
(manipulated and fabricated ecomomic oppression)
Poor and confused citizens are a result of your wars.
Protect the middle class and it's ideals and freedoms it represents.
The efforts of the military are in affect securing slavery thru plantation racism. It is not at all to secure freedom of the people.
If you would have freedom of the people, people around the world would still be working their own small family farms, instead having been literally murdered or otherwise taxed or regulated, and tyrannically intimidate off their lands; farmers forced to leave their thousand year old heritage as the true stewards of the lands.
Farmers around the world have not wanted to leave their lands, but have been manipulation by policies of deceit sanctioned by the FED, banksters and of the bureaucrats, the most insidious of all the sycophants. (treason, doing crimes from the inside out).
War is fought over who's resources (including the workers) the oligarch ultimately can exploit.
(slavery includes oppression as well as non living wages)
The more we allow prisons "to create jobs" and allow "racial plantationism" to create corporate feudalism, therein the phrase that Alex Jones has made famous, we have a "Prison Planet".
Oathkeepers arise! Don't just do it for the money.
And never forget, “Humans, despite our artistic pretensions, our sophistication and many accomplishments, owe the fact of our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”
WOW!!! you got it down, RfL...
...i'm gonna copy and paste this for future reference...
O Captain! My Captain! Rise up and hear the bells!
its 'cos I owe ya, my young friend...
Rockin' the FREE world in Tennessee since 1957!
question
Why did you title this post that?
It is not informative.
It is meant to incite a gut reaction.
This is a newspaper technique used when there isn't content worth headlining.
This does not make me want to read the post.
This goes back to my qualm of whether we should clearly enunciate the freedom message or slur it to strangers in passing.
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if the truth hurts...
go back to sleep!
"attacking the messenger will no longer be accepted as a valid argument against the message"
O Captain! My Captain! Rise up and hear the bells!
its 'cos I owe ya, my young friend...
Rockin' the FREE world in Tennessee since 1957!
this truth is old news
Was someone expecting the military industrial complex to cut back in rough economic times? Has that ever happened? I don't get the surprise.
Does this post, via well-constructed and memorable counterarguments, embolden readers to constructively discuss this with the uninvolved or uninformed? It's literally cut and paste from another source, full of content that will do little past infuriate this forum, none of it original.
We can focus on more productive subjects. I will not touch this thread again.
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Out of all due respect (sincerely)
Read between the lines.
Do you think a 7 billion dollar aircraft carrier is appropriate?
Who is paying for this?
What do you think it will be used for?
Why are we witness to such waste?
Why are we having our faces rubbed in it by this imperial Ford family?
Why would you ask?
I think the title is very appropriate and I stand by it. It is absolutely obscene!
I also take exception to your assertion that we should go back to clearly enunciate the freedom message or slur it to strangers.
1. This is real news
2. This is real waste
Time to open the eyes of everyone Jon. If we remain passive nothing will change.
BTW, you are my brother and I respect your opinion. I just feel differntly about it.
For Freedom!
For Freedom!
STUGOTS! To the high and felutent establishment!
Paultian Powerhouse!
point being
I'd rather see the much more poignant and informative second line of your above comment heading this post should the Daily Paul appear on the news again than the current (albeit impassioned) absence of style.
You may have misunderstood my question "of whether we should clearly enunciate the freedom message or slur it to strangers in passing". The obvious answer to me being the former, I do not think you mean to say you'd rather the latter.
With equal respect.
LibertyDefined.org | If | Not Perfect
its ALL part of the freedom message, jon...
don't slice it and dice it up to only eat the part you like...the bitter truth is that all of this is OUR tax money at work...
do we REALLY need another nuclear aircraft carrier?
O Captain! My Captain! Rise up and hear the bells!
its 'cos I owe ya, my young friend...
Rockin' the FREE world in Tennessee since 1957!
I agree it is
a HUGE waste of money. I'm tired of all the money going to a military who are working for the banksters and corporations for the sole purpose of killing civilians.
Prepare & Share the Message of Freedom through Positive-Peaceful-Activism.
the Navy... "A global
the Navy... "A global force(farce) for good" what a joke..
A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. Proverbs 22:3
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to
send peace on earth: I came not to send peace,
but a sword.
A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. Proverbs 22:3
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to
send peace on earth: I came not to send peace,
but a sword.
Please...
someone tell me this is a joke...
One billion
Just for hardhats.
All crew expected to wear them at all times.
bump, ouch!
What a friggin' waste. More corporate welfare.
They'll tell us that it creates jobs. They they'll tax the workers.
"I don't endorse anything they say"
~Ron Paul On the 911 Truth movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGyhlNY0y1k
Yep, that is exactly what it`s about. The sheeple love those
gigantic floating war ships that are built to rule the world for our Offensive Department of War.
" The force of a correction is equal and opposite to the deception that proceded it"
B. Bonner
"Since 1789 the only government on Earth that has the power to crush the American people`s liberties across the board is the government of the United States"
Robert Higgs
This country is bankrupt
what part of that do they not understand.
Prepare & Share the Message of Freedom through Positive-Peaceful-Activism.
Is it really bankrupt?
I am starting to wonder about this rhetoric of broke and bankrupt.
If an individual is broke, bankrupt, penniless, without financial means, or has a "negative cash-flow-position" (to be politically correct), then that individual cannot BUY ANYTHING. It would also be difficult to buy anything to BUILD anything. Obviously the GRF Carrier is underway. So, if we are broke, then why hasn't the project been halted? I'm really beginning to wonder about this whole financial "crisis."
Someone explain if the DOLLAR is crashing or the FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE is? Which is it? I think some of these issues are so multi-faceted that you can't get any large numberof individuals to even acknowledge or recognize what's really going on!
The goal is always to disseminate the middle class,
but if the middle class does grow, the FEDs come along with a great depression. Obama is trying to solve the "middle class" problem, in disseminating the middle class thru socialism/communism/facism.
And never forget, “Humans, despite our artistic pretensions, our sophistication and many accomplishments, owe the fact of our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”
It's been redistributed
Whatever is left is earmarked to turn America into a military machine to enforce the NWO agenda. The Khazar elitists tried doing that in Russia/Soviet Union and look what that did, so now they're over here using the same playbook.
R3VOLution
"Whatever is left??......"
If you're broke/bankrupt, there is none to start with to HAVE left to earmark, footmark, or elbowmark.
We are bankrupt.
The only thing keeping us afloat is the counterfeit money the FED is creating with it's digits. Eventually, when they are ready they will pull the plug and the shoe drops and the new currency is introduced. In the mean time they are building up the war machine.
Prepare & Share the Message of Freedom through Positive-Peaceful-Activism.
This is the last thing we need!
For Freedom!
For Freedom!
STUGOTS! To the high and felutent establishment!
Paultian Powerhouse!