Trump didn't make it to Davos this year, but he's determined to visit the Army tank plant in Lima, Ohio.
Share to twitterPresident Trump’s visit this week to the Army’s sole surviving tank plant in Lima, Ohio is the first such presidential visit there since George W. Bush stopped by in 2003. President Obama never visited, and the depressed level of military spending during his presidency nearly shut the place down.
President Trump has reversed this litany of non-stop mistakes in managing the nation’s armored vehicle industrial base, increasing funding for upgrades and modifications to the Abrams main battle tank to over $2 billion in the Pentagon’s 2020 budget request. As a result, the number of employees at the Lima plant will grow from a low of about 400 two years ago to over a thousand by the end of next year.
At least it can be if leaders in the White House and Congress use the military budget wisely. Which brings me back to the Democrats, who under Obama gave the Army a mere two days’ worth of federal spending per year for all its weapons programs. No kidding, the Army was getting less money for manufacturing armored vehicles than Americans spend each year on Halloween, and the long-term operational implications were about as scary.
So for Trump, reenergizing tank production isn’t just about “peace through strength,” it’s about restoring the nation’s faltering manufacturing base that once earned America the title, “Arsenal of Democracy.” Unlike his predecessors, Trump doesn’t see any problem with considering the economic and industrial implications of weapons purchases. In fact, he thinks that policymakers who don’t take the economic consequences of their decisions into account are just plain stupid.
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