[Racketeer]

So it begins. I guess the Pentagon will use our money to buy Lockheed-Martin & General Dynamics next.

Karl Marx is laughing!!

[Red Badger]

Now, how many members of CONGRESS were in on it?.............

[BobL]

“Karl Marx is laughing!!”

I have no clue as to the back story, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the owner of the only supply of Rare Earth in the US was using his monopoly position to try to SCREW OVER US taxpayers...and the government got sick of dealing with him.

[grobdriver]

How in the world can the Defense Department buy stock?

[HYPOCRACY]

Preferred stock is not stock. It’s tier 2 debt.

[Carry_Okie]

Mountain Pass, CA is an open pit mine just off I-15 in eastern San Bernardino County with its own interchange for trucking. The facility is about a mile across.

[brent13a]

Karl Marx is laughing!!

Would Marx have been laughing gleefully (in 1942-1946) when the US Government, the War Department, and the Pentagon snatched up whole swaths of land, building secret towns, the world's largest industrial buildings, then snatched up whole mines' worth of plutonium and uranium?

[Wuli]

Using “security” to start a national government “private” enterprise “national industrial” agenda.

A lesson in how to become the type of government you profess to despise.

[HereInTheHeartland]

The government SHOULD BE investing in this .
A huge national security issue.
One of the few things they should do