Subject: Re: Gotta hand it to Uncle Sam

“We are in a hole” that requires creative financing, he told the FT. It could, he hopes, be filled by “clever financing models or unique financing models” of the sort the firms attending the meetings are renowned for.

Do it the "free enterprise" way? Sell naming rights for bases and ships. Sell advertising space on the hulls of ships and tanks.
/sarcasm

Steve...actually, USS Amazon doesn't sound *that* bad, due to the other meanings of the name