Should Wyoming Build an Aircraft Carrier? (Updated)

[RKP5637]

This Wyoming plan sure sounds strange to me ...

See >>> http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/02/should-wyoming-build-aircraft-carrier

MotherJones
—By Tim Murphy
Mon Feb. 27, 2012 3:00 AM PST

"Update: A little Internet scrutiny goes a long way, apparently: The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports that the aircraft provision has been scrapped. We take full credit. Details here.

On Friday, the Wyoming House of Representatives advanced a bill to set up a task force to prepare for the total economic and political collapse of the United States. Per the bill, the panel would investigate things like food storage options and metals-based currencies, to be implemented in the event of a major catastrophe.

Then it goes three steps further. An amendment by GOP state Rep. Kermit Brown*, calls on the task force to examine "Conditions under which the state of Wyoming should implement a draft, raise a standing army, marine corps, navy and air force and acquire strike aircraft and an aircraft carrier." As the bill's GOP sponsor, state Rep. David Miller, explained to the Casper Star-Tribune, "Things happen quickly sometimes."

Buying an aircraft carrier is, as a rule, a great idea, but there are a few hiccups, not the least of which is that Wyoming is currently landlocked. Its largest body of water, Yellowstone Lake, is frozen from December through June and sits in the middle of a giant volcano that stands about as good a chance as anything else at triggering the aforementioned societal collapse. In that sense, Wyoming has a lot in common with another mineral-rich, landlocked, mountainous territory—Bolivia. Bolivians, who have a national holiday honoring the day in 1904 they lost their coastline to Chile, have made the best of their situation by maintaining a small flotilla on Lake Titicaca. No aircraft carrier, though."

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[izquierdista]

1. Beats spending it on the unemployed or poor children

Remind me again why Republicans are supposed to be the party of fiscal responsibility......

[RC]

2. Does Montana even have enough people to properly man and maintain an aircraft carrier?

I'm thinking too many people came out of hiding in the mountains.