Posted on 08/25/2024 2:51:11 PM PDT by Jyotishi
related to Smedley Butler by chance?
The only thing we need is the Navy. We should reduce the size of our armed forces, there reduce the influence of the MIC.
ALL wars are Banker’s wars.
ALL!!!
The MIC is profiting so much that expenditures on defense are nearly at an all time low as a % of GDP, since WW2.
If you listen to Eisenhower’s speech, it was Big Everything he warned. Any collusion between big government and business.
He was warning of fascism.
> President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address in 1961, refers to the synergistic relationship between a nation’s armed forces, its defence industry, and its political establishment. <
No one has higher standing to comment on this issue than Ike. No one. And he thought the topic was important enough to discuss head-on. That’s telling.
Congressman: I will not vote for this bloated defense bill.
Lobbyist: There’ll be money in it for your home district.
Congressman: This bill must pass!
What’s the solution? Giving the president a line-item veto? I personally don’t think there is a solution. It will be borrow and spend until the whole thing collapses in a Weimar-like mess.
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All time PERCENTAGE LOW of a BLOATED budget is still Fugly high.
All one needs to do is Observe profits of MIC corporations. I have 2 close relatives working in MIC corporations. It is Fugly obscene waste of taxpayers money.
Ok, post % profit numbers for recent years, for the industry as a whole, for sales to the USA.
I am not your secretary. Google it. You can find yourself.
Ferengi rule of acquisition #34. War is good for business.
Yup, the “F” word.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VES2JiYNITM&t=6669s
Per this, the top 5 defense contractors earned $13-14,000,000,000.
Go to the 2:18:00 mark or so and they’ll start talking about the M.I.C., etc.
/obligatory warning about military guys, drinking, and foul words.
YOU are the person accusing the MIC of obscene profits. Back it up or get lost.
FINALLY THEY ARE GETTING IT!
Thanks for the find!
I will interject. Congress is bypassing the DOD and sending it directly to the Ukraine, Isreal, and other countries to buy war products from the MIC suppliers.
The U.S. is NOT the only customer. We the taxpayers pay through proxy countries.
Good job generals on that pullout from Afganistan. promotions all around. You will be as successful as the starting Soviet generals against Hitler.
No we should unilaterally disarm and become the compassionate nation the socialists want, where every one is equal except some will need more than others, but on the whole, equal when we stand in long lines, hoping the food item we need will still be in stock. We can be assured that the store will compassionately turn us away, even though we are singing praises to the most beloved female President we never elected.
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