Knowing and reading about his business past, warnings about the military, he must be dabbling into the military complex to make more money...

He sure has a lot of room to talk when he has been responsible for companies going out of business putting 100's of thousands out of work with his shady business deals...

How utterly predictable that Romney, head of the party of corporations and the wealthy, would ramp up fear, a typical party ploy, to defeat any reductions in the profits of the military industrial complex no matter how much suffering of its ordinary citizens is the result. Let's take tax money that could be spent on improving the conditions of life for those who have suffered as a result of corporations' outsourcing of American jobs to cheaper labor markets and those whose life savings and home equity disappeared after Republican deregulation of Wall Street led to the greedy schemes by Wall Street traders, and let's give it to the military industrial complex, most of which are big contributors to Romney's Party.

I say throw every dogmatic Republican who pushes warmed-over "austere capitalism" from office so ordinary, middle class Americans can once again have hope of being something more than low paid corporate serfs. Get rid of the quasi-anarchistic Tea Party imbeciles who strive to destroy government in order to create a third world country, where the population largely consists of a huge poor class and a small wealthy class but no middle class. The top 20% already take home 85% of all annual income and that figure has been growing for many years, making a mockery of "trickle down." http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html. American has been trickling upward since Reagan's election.

In terms of "taking back America," it's time for ordinary citizens to take back our democracy from those who run the corporate oligarchy so public opinion keeps being ignored by bought-off politicians. Legislatively overturn Citizens United through a new constitutional amendment. Just because they needed personhood to file a suit doesn't mean they enjoy First Amendment protections. Get rid of every single Republican who signed the Norquist pledge and have, in lockstep, thwarted most Democratic plans to improve the economy by resorting to filibusters at a far greater rate than at any other time in history and then blaming Obama for it. These people abandoned governance for fealty to one concept which disserves America--no tax increases. Federal income taxes are at their lowest levels in almost 60 years, but the relentless servants of the wealthy keep advocating further reducing government at an astonishing pace that threatens to transform America into a third world country, where there aren't enough policemen, firemen, public service workers, teachers, judges, probation officers, district attorneys, and health practitioners to address the needs of the population. That's not the America I grew up in, and it's the America I want to die in.

Wake up, Americans, from the dogmatic slumbers into which you've fallen. Let's lionize average working Americans and not capital investors and supposed "job creators" who have taken their tax cuts and jobs and sent the jobs to cheaper labor markets to increase their profit margins. The last five years have demonstrated beyond peradventure that capitalism ain't patriotic. Call out those corporations for what they are--traitors who've betrayed the purchasers of their products and services. Use the market place to protest their betrayal of average Americans. Let's stop worshiping our corporate masters.

Romney the coward is now trying to act like he knows something about the military? Cowards should keep their pie hole shut......

Dear Hawk Warmongering Romney: Your last GOP President cut taxes amidst two global wars that has cost us over 3.5TRILLION DOLLARS. You want to build 5 more Aircraft carriers even the Navy does not want. Future wars against unconventional enemies will be fought with special forces, and commandos and rapid deployments. OBama is actually secretly and effectively increasing that. All you are doing is becoming a prostitute to the Military-Industrial complex Eisenhower warned us about. YOU want to cut Medicare and Medicare, pare down SS payments and YOU want to INCREASE defense spending without raising revenues? How will your mormon logical business thinking processes work with this? Stop your scare mongering and lying Romney. The last pair of liars said "Iraqi oil revenues will pay for the war in 6 months" ; "it will be a cakewalk" ; "mission accomplished" and a host of other lies as we got bogged down. I will tell you what; your very wealthy rich 5 grown up boys should join the Marines and go to Afghanistan. I DARE YOU. Then bring the draft and also a WAR TAX.. Otherwise you are a fear mongering idiot .

Hmm. John McCain doesn't have the best record when it comes to judging people "fully qualified to be commander in chief", does he? Evidently, he judges Roms to be just as qualified as Sarah Palin. Re: Roms's warning about shrinking the military, lest America doesn't turn out to be master of the universe this century: Look, Roms, America is a powerhouse that won't be denied on the world stage, DESPITE the nonsensical policies proposed by you and your Repub brethren. America will succeed, DESPITE Republicans, because the rest of her citizens understand the role America can play in the world if we have a healthy society, and they won't permit you to screw up the society and the economy as the last disastrous Repub president and his crew did. Y'all are lame, lame, lame, and everyone knows it. Don't presume to lecture us on what needs to happen with the military. You come from the same party as the last pres and vice-pres, who overextended and wore out America's military with too many unnecessary commitments. We don't WANT or NEED your advice on how to configure the military. STFU.

So sad that the lefties on this site can't at least give it a rest on Memorial Day. I spent 20 years serving this Country under both Republican and Democrat Presidents. Reagan took the best care of us and Carter the aboslute worst. Clinton was average, Bush the first was ok and Bush the second pushed us beyond our means. Those who complain that Romney didn't serve (niether did Obama) most likely didn't either so their opinion means nothing. Libs have never been strong supporters of the miltary but will give Obama (Michelle) credit for doing a superb job highlighting the needs of military families.

He may be warning of the perils of less military, but the real perils are keeping it the way it is. It will kill us economically.

Meet the newest member of the Chicken Hawk Corps, Mitt Romnuke.

Willard, not even the Navy and DOD wants more Aircraft carriers. Are there some Mormon business leaders waiting to make money off our taxes?

• The next country to even have real Aircraft Carriers are Italy with 2 and China with 1 Obsolete one. We have 12 Super carriers.
• NO OTHER NATION ON EARTH can match our power projection abilities. but no other nation has super carriers.
• NEVER will the Chinese, or Russian navies match ours. India is now an ally of ours and have two small ones..
• And if you want 5 more then you need to build them at about $10 to 20 BILLION APIECE plus support group ships too. Cut taxes and do it ?
• Is Bain Capital or Marriot family Mormons waiting to make a killing on our tax money?

For the rest of you here is the Wiki entry on it.

Supercarrier is an unofficial descriptive term for the largest type of aircraft carrier, usually displacing over 70,000 long tons.^[1] The U.S. Navy currently has 11 such ships.^[2] In comparison, a few countries operate what are by today's standards medium carriers (fleet carrier) of around 42,000 tons such as the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (R91). The size and configuration of the Charles de Gaulle corresponds closely with the 45,000 ton Midway class the United States built at the end of World War II, as a successor class to the much more numerous 27,000 ton Essex-class aircraft carrier which did the heavy lifting in WWII after 1943 when they entered service. Internationally, light carriers closer to 20,000 tons (such as HMS Illustrious) are more typical. Supercarriers are the largest warships ever built eclipsing even the largest battleship classes laid down by all countries.

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• 1 History
• 2 Alternatives
• 3 Classes
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Evan a idiot like omaba most have a memory. What happened at the end of WW1, WW2,Korea and these last 2 bundgles, Forget the Vietnam/ DRAFT.You'll see some real cry baby tears. No 4 years of Ra?? and Booz??.

The "war mongering machine" is alive and well in the Republican Party.

Republican campaign donors will bankrupt this country yet.

Remember in November!

Romney must not have a brain. Are military isn't shrinking. The problem is the military is expanding into countries. Obama and Romney are two peas in a pod. They have the same special interest in destroying this country little by little. Are money is worthless thanks to the fed. Are liberties are destroyed thanks to the Patriot Act, Ndaa, and HR 347. Next in line will be CISPSA. When that happens we are officially a socialist country if were not already. Thanks to MSM in telling people how we should vote and not who to vote for with lies and ignorance. Thank God people are waking up and realizing people like Ron Paul are right and Its time to take our country back from the democrat and republican thugs.

Here is what Romney should do.

1. Take care of Veterans

2. Give them tax breaks and hike taxes for the rich including his sons

3. Increase life time medical support for the thousands of maimed Veterans

4. Decrease number of bases overseas

5. Increase special forces and marines and their deployment capabilities: Obama and Panetta are already doing that.

6. Increase intel and predator capabilities.

7. Reduce money sucking scams like the F-35

8. Have a defense or war tax

and for some of you veterans, who want to bitch about Obama, please note all of this comes from everyone's tax money. it is the republicans who cut revenues and stretched our forces thin. if you want to cut taxes then don't say you want to increase wars and spending on toys that make the rich even richer.. IT IS OUR TAXES that pay for VA care as well and I totally support a War Tax and increasing VA benefits. Wars cost money. Reagan just wasted money on useless things.

Republicans and Christians!!! People!! People!!

Haven't enough men died!!!!!!!!!!!!!

World WAR III will be complete destruction of mankind !!

WWIIII will be fought with sticks and stones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mitt Romney / War Monger!!!

I don't think Romney knows the power of the United States !!!

Here is a short rundown!!!

ISRAEL

Israel is not a member of the NPT and refuses to officially confirm or deny having a nuclear arsenal, or having developed nuclear weapons.

Although the government says that the Negev Nuclear Research Centre, located near the town of Dimona is a "research reactor", no reports based on what work is carried out there have ever been published.

Analysts however, estimate that the country holds up to 80 nuclear warheads.

UNITED STATES

The United States possesses the second largest nuclear arsenal, with a total inventory of around 9,400 nuclear bombs and warheads.

The US Air Force operates a strategic nuclear bomber fleet. The bomber force consists of 94 B-52 Stratofortresses, and 19 B-2 Spirits. All 64 B-1s were retrofitted to operate in a solely conventional mode by 2007 and are no longer counted as nuclear platforms.

In addition to this, the US armed forces can also deploy smaller "tactical" nuclear weapons either through cruise missiles or with conventional fighter-bombers. The U.S. maintains about 400 nuclear gravity bombs capable of use by F-15, F-16, and F-35.^[9] Some 350 of these bombs are deployed at seven airbases in six European NATO countries;^[9] of these, 180 tactical B61 nuclear bombs fall under a nuclear sharing arrangement.^[11]

The US Navy currently has 18 Ohio-class submarines deployed, of which 14 are ballistic missile submarines. Each submarine is equipped with a complement of 24 Trident II missiles. Approximately 12 U.S. attack submarines are equipped to launch, but do not currently carry nuclear Tomahawk missiles. Sea-launch weapons make up the majority of weapons declared under START II rules. Some Trident missiles are equipped with the W88 warhead.

The U.S. developed anti-personnel and anti-crop biological weapons.^[14] Several deployment systems were developed including aerial spray tanks, aerosol spray canisters, grenades, rocket warheads and cluster bombs. (See also US Biological Weapon Testing)

I think we need to reduce the military. I mean down to NOTHING. We don't need to protect our interests. We have no enemies either.

What could go wrong? And the Gov. would save all that money! I'm sure it would go straight to good new programs or even reduce our debt. I have no idea what we would do with the amazing amount of people that would be out of a job but really who cares.

So let's do it. The only way anyone learns in this Country is by seeing the ramifications.

Well, if Mitt is so afraid of a shrinking military let him sacrifice some of his many sons. They can protect us against a "resurgent" Russia. Mitt's ignorance should scare America. Not the Russians.

The best defense is a strong offense when it comes to avoiding or fighting a war. When we become a pacified species (probably never) then we can risk drawdowns. Until then we must have a military that is feared, because as soon as our enemies sense weakness, they will go for our jugular! Japan sensed weakness and they were almost right. JFK used our might to scare off the USSR from Cuba.

A Poster earlier on questioned why 7 Carrier groups were needed. Simple - to take the fight away from our shores and keep it there.

BTW, this has nothing to do with Mitt's sons. So stop with those lame excuses.

Fly High!

You would thing with all of Romney's business experience he would realize the easiest way for China or any of the middle east countries to hurt America is to execute a margin call or their loans or just sell off all the American based stock. How about we keep the DOD money here at home helping Americans and America.

"Were we to follow that kind of course, there would be no one that could stand to protect us".....Willard "Mitt" Romney.

We are not following the course Romney describes, the U.S. has the strongest most advanced military in the world and President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta are committed to keeping it that way.

Romney's campaign has embarked on a program of spreading disinformation and of distorting the facts.

Romney warns of perils of shrinking military at Memorial Day event

Pretty much like the $5 gas prices...we didn't see. Or the prediction of more and more unemployment. Come on repubs, get real. Enough with the scare tactics....you're proven wrong over and over.

Rather than whining over what Obama has done...why not tell us YOUR plans! Be positive and give us another option, rather than just the constant refrain of 'I'd do the opposite of the current President'. You're simply not going to win indy's or dems by just making the other side look bad....dooner or later Romney's going to have to say SOMETHING.

Why!!??? In the 'hell' is Romney stumping on a day like today?? He has no clue of what it take's to be a Veteran!! This is a day for men/and women who put other's before themselfs!! Un selfishley!!Not one who hide's behind their politcal connections, so they don't have to do the right thing!!!

So it's really true!! Romney has no shame!! His egotistical attitude, and capitalistic personalilty speaks vloumes!! My son gave his life in this senseless 'war'. And for him to add insult to injury any mention of 'war' with another country...Show's he only for his self. Then he should enlist and get on the battle ground to prove he respect's what these men/women have to endure!!

It is not so much the military, although the fact that the pentagon cannot do their accounts well enough to be able to account for 20% to 30% of their vast budget on an annual basis ( a cause for grave concern as such unprofessional behaviour is just a wide open door for misappropriation ), but rather the clear fact that the private sector defense contractors simply see the government as the taxpayer teat to be suckled on for whatever and however long they like. This egregious rather socialistic conduct aided by their congressional stooges who manipulate the system to ensure a steady flow of cash - rather like the old design bureaus of the latter day soviet union ( post Stalin, because of course in Stalins day if what they were paid to develop did not work they ended up in the Gulag ) whose ambition and hubrus also ultimately drained the soviets dry.

If there is anything the Republican Primaries showed the country, it is that Romney will say ANYTHING to get elected---and EVERYONE knows it---even the Republicans! No matter! They MUST hang on EVERY word as if they believe he is telling them the truth! I honestly believe not one Republican has any self-respect any more! They've sold themselves to a man and a Party they KNOW is using them every minute of every day. I honestly do not know how anyone can sell themselves out and still call themselves a man or a woman. You can attack me all you want. I don't give a rip. It's you who has to deal with what you've become---particularly when you wake at 3:00 a.m. and the devils are dancing on your chest saying you're a pathetic example of a real man or woman. You've sold your soul and you know it!

Well, Mitt, thanks for making it clear you think the US should be the world's police force.

Romney is a puppet like Obama. They only talk when a bank pulls the string then suddenly noise comes out of there mouths. If people were smart they would vote a third party candidate instead of these clowns. We need a new voice for America. Republicans and Democrats have overplayed there hands. They are so corrupt they have destroyed are liberties.