“The fiscal responsibility of the Pentagon who brought us $500 hammers and $1,000 toilet seats”
Now to be fair, that wasn’t the Pentagon. It was various congress critters placing earmarks into the Pentagon budget.
GE was forced to buy phillips head screwdrivers from Stanley Tools in order for them to win the contract for the F404 engine used in the F/A-18. It wasn’t because the Pentagon said so, it was meddling by congress who placed the requirement into the spending bill.
I think you help make my point. It is the “system” that brings us all the examples you have provided - thanks. It will be NO DIFFERENT, perhaps WORSE, with the Marxist and elitist central planning going on right now, comrade.