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FTA: "Policymakers must recognize that industrial capacity is a public good and short-term actors on Wall Street have become a serious national security vulner
by dctoedt 7y ago
FTA: "Policymakers must recognize that industrial capacity is a public good and short-term actors on Wall Street have become a serious national security vulnerability. While private businesses are essential to our common defense, the public sector must once again structure how we organize our national defense and protect our defense industrial base from predatory finance. For several decades, Wall Street has been organizing not just the financing of defense contractors, but the capabilities of our very defense posture. That experiment has been a failure. It is time to wake up, before it’s too late."
- andrekandre 7y agothat “experiment” being neoliberalism perpetrate by both parties, to the detriment of us all... a slight-of-hand to bring back the old days of rule by financiers and basically “cancel the future‘