“you can’t indict an industry that provides the only constitutionally mandated function, national defense.”
Why not, if they’re lobbying - successfully - for needless, costly wars? The presidency is a constitutionally mandated office, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be used corruptly. Or would you have told us we couldn’t ‘indict’ Hillary, if she became president, because the presidency is “constitutionally mandated”?
What a nonsensical response. The industry responds to the govt demand. Going into WWII, industry leaders were called into the White House and asked what it would take to defeat the axis powers. Those industry leaders like Ford and others told the leadership what it would cost, and then they went out and delivered. It wasn’t cheap. Were they criminals?
Dirty politicians can corrupt any part of government. Why do you subscribe to the ‘military industrial complex’ propaganda that implies its any worse than the rest of government? I would argue the opposite. The military and most contractors work in a mostly low profit margin and high (financially) risky environment. They PRODUCE the means to let our soldiers go win wars with the highest probability of killing the enemy so they can safely come home to their families. Many of those in the industry were former soldiers, sailors, and airmen themselves.
It should give you comfort that this industry is actually providing for the countries defense, and doing so with the worlds best tech, when China, Russia, and other adversaries are developing weapons to defeat us.
Point your accusatory fingers at corrupt elected officials. American workers don’t need your ignorant talking point accusations.