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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Ferengi rule of acquisition #34. War is good for business.
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.
FINALLY THEY ARE GETTING IT!
Thanks for the find!
Good job generals on that pullout from Afganistan. promotions all around. You will be as successful as the starting Soviet generals against Hitler.
LOL. In 1960, we were spending 10% of GDP on the military. Today, we spend under 4%, while at war