Largest Destroyer Built For Navy Headed To Sea For Testing (ap.org)

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 7, 2015 @11:11AM from the big-boat dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The first Zumwalt-class destroyer, the USS Zumwalt, the largest ever built for the U.S. Navy, headed out to sea today. Departing from shipbuilder Bath Iron Works, the ship left to undergo sea trials. The AP reports: "The ship has electric propulsion, new radar and sonar, powerful missiles and guns, and a stealthy design to reduce its radar signature. Advanced automation will allow the warship to operate with a much smaller crew size than current destroyers. All of that innovation has led to construction delays and a growing price tag. The Zumwalt, the first of three ships in the class, will cost at least $4.4 billion."

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Re:Perspective by Jack+Griffin · 2015-12-07 13:43 · Score: 1, Flamebait

The outrage is that even a penny of tax-monies is spent on healthcare — which is decidedly not in the Constitution, and is best handled by the free markets.
Derp, derp. The free market approach to universal health care is a well proven failure, and everyone except you seems to know that.