The government spends every dime it can on the military anyway. If they could squeeze more to replace a ship they would already be squeezing more to build a new one. They already spend as much as the next nine countries combined.

If the war machine was going to grind to a halt just because they had "enough" ships and bombs, it would've done so already. It'll keep going, more and more forever, starting more and more conflicts just to justify lining their pockets, until they finally bite off more than they can chew and kick off nuclear armegeddon. Any of their shit that gets wrecked in their stupid, psychotic adventurism is a good thing because it slows them down from that, even if just a little.

None of it saves me a dime and even if it did I wouldn't care because my dimes won't be worth anything when they destroy the world.