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Because every weapons program is also a jobs program .
by zitterbewegung 8y ago
Because every weapons program is also a jobs program .
- chii 8y agoWhy not just create a jobs program directly, rather than inefficiently and with many middleman taking their cut?!
- Apocryphon 8y agoNot palatable to 20th century American cultural mistrust of government aid.
- mtremsal 8y agoSee also the TSA?
- wnevets 8y agohow else would well connected people become rich?
- zitterbewegung 8y agoBecause it also ensures that your weapon systems are made in this country .
- peteretep 8y agoBecause decades of propaganda that it’s socialism if the owners of capital don’t get a cut in the middle
- PavlovsCat 8y agoIt's a taxpayer subsidy to the military-industrial complex. That some of that money ends up in the pockets of workers is a sad reality that cannot yet be avoided, but it's hardly "the reason". That would imply a level of care that is completely incompatible with a lot of things. Take the use of low-IQ troops in Vietnam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J2VwFDV4-g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J2VwFDV4-g But the defense budget is so people can "put food on their family"? It doesn't even begin to add up.