>>12266241>Money laundering>spending too much on the militaryit's america's way of giving government financial aid to companies, much like under socialism.
the u.s. just uses the military as a fig leaf.
"But there’s someone more important who does want it. Namely, people like Newt Gingrich’s rich constituents and others like them, who have to be protected from market discipline. If they had to face the market, they’d be out selling rags or something, but they need a nanny state, a powerful nanny state to pour money into their pockets. They happen to be there represented by the country’s leading welfare freak, Newt Gingrich. That’s literally correct. It’s not an exaggeration and it’s, furthermore, well known, although it’s not reported. Nor is the fact that the Pentagon system has long been the country’s biggest welfare program, transferring massive public funds to high-tech industry on the pretext of defense and security. And that it is a pretext is also well known and has been public, certainly in Washington, since the late 1940s. For example, when the senator from Missouri, Senator Symington, an aircraft producer at that time, Secretary of the Air Force under Truman explained that the word to use is not “subsidy,” the word to use is “security.” "
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