DEI at Sea: Why the Coast Guard Still Has No New Icebreakers

Imagine a scenario: you pay a contractor $1.7 billion for three new homes. Five years pass. You have no homes. Worse, you're told it will be another five years, and the final cost will now exceed $5 billion. Meanwhile, your neighbor offers to sell you ready-made homes of superior quality for a fifth of the price, deliverable in 24 months. Would you cont…