ANY doubts that people may have had about actual for-profit wars and enriching the obscenely bloated arms industry, arms dealers and countless middle-men (and women) should now take notice: it IS a fact!
Prez-General Eisenhower warned our republic about the corrupting influence “whether sought or unsought” by the MICC war-machine, but that sage, well experienced counsel fell on deaf and corrupted Congressional ears - the first “C” in MICC is “Congressional”. With an arms manufacturer or subsidiary in every Congressional district, the struggle to change our focus, expenditures, and energy, from jobs that kill, maim, and destroy to education, infrastructure, health-care and environmental protection is a very steep uphill battle. Eisenhower’s prescient warning now grown above treasonous levels!
One astonishing aspect of military procurement and spending has just been re-upped by the trump regime in the compound insane F-35 $406 Billion addition the that Mother-of-All-Boondoggles at a current total (who really knows the REAL full costs when all is counted?!) of $1.45 Trillion! Accounting tricks and distortion and deceptions are rampant in Pentagon spending! Pigs at the trough!
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
That statement is very accurate, but the truth today is that the “defense” part has become official treasonous theft from our nation and people’s future accomplished by a very complicit Congress!!
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
"a burden of arms draining the wealth and the labor of all peoples; a wasting of strength that defies the American system or the Soviet system or any system to achieve true abundance and happiness for the peoples of this earth." Dwight David Eisenhower