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Government spending IS spent in the DC area. Every government contractor has major offices if not outright headquartered in DC area. For example: Northrop Grum
by asmithmd1 15y ago
Government spending IS spent in the DC area. Every government contractor has major offices if not outright headquartered in DC area. For example: Northrop Grumman, CSC, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics are all headquartered there. Any new bureaucracy finds offices in the region - TSA's 4000+ headquarters employees are in Northern VA.
I know I am going off on a tangent but since 2008 the US government has been spending $1,300 billion more than it collects each year! Instead of spending that in the DC area why not just send a check for $10,000 to each and every household in the US. Of course these numbers do not include the TARP cash that is deluging Wall St.
- achompas 15y agoI don't want to follow this tangent further, but you're right about the headquartering of consultancies in the DMV area. Booz Allen is there too. Still: Instead of spending that in the DC area why not just send a check for $10,000 to each and every household in the US. Because that money is funding a decade-long war overseas and a series of tax cuts enacted several years ago that were recently extended. Of course these numbers do not include the TARP cash that is deluging Wall St. Almost all of the TARP money has been paid back. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program#Participants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program#...