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Let me tell you why; up in the DC area my best friend is in IT working in the private sector and makes around 50k a year. His friend who knows about a tenth as much as him and has no college makes 3 times more as a contractor for the NSA. This is BS!
Clinton slashed the military budget and used the money to contract out functions the military used to exclusively handle. One of those functions is intelligence gathering and analyzing. So Clinton got to say he saved money when in reality he made it available to contractors to put more people to work.
Blackwater and many more organizations profit from contracts for the military. Why Iraq coalition Gov demanded the private security companies get out of Iraq due to the indiscriminate killing they were engaged in.
Not the part the Republicans will go along with, no. Face it, the GOP has its hands in the POCKETS of the national security industries. Won't get a single Republican vote (beyond maybe Rand Paul) to defund what must be a trillion dollar industry.
Bingo.
Majority of wasted taxpayer money goes to corporate subsidy, namely defense contractors.
Clinton slashed the military budget and used the money to contract out functions the military used to exclusively handle. One of those functions is intelligence gathering and analyzing. So Clinton got to say he saved money when in reality he made it available to contractors to put more people to work.
Blackwater and many more organizations profit from contracts for the military. Why Iraq coalition Gov demanded the private security companies get out of Iraq due to the indiscriminate killing they were engaged in.
This is the end result of that program.
They NEVER point out where Republican votes were in any of these budgetary actions. Yeh, I do know how Clinton triangulated off what Republicans would have done anyway, but it is historical revisionism to think Clinton somehow rammed any budget down the throats of Republican opposition.
I watched a news program recently were they said that the riches area codes in the U.S. are no longer in New York for Wall Street, or California for Hollywood but rather in Virginia for defense contractors. It's obvious too by the way that Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Mike Rogers shill for their wealthy patrons the Surveillance Industrial Complex.
Hey, didn't DNI James Clapper come from contractor Booze Allen Hamilton, too?
Two places I know have always been up there. Connecticut (insurance) and Virginia (federal pork) You hear all sort of nonsense about the need to eliminate pork, but incumbents just want to keep serving it up and getting re-elected.
I watched a news program recently were they said that the riches area codes in the U.S. are no longer in New York for Wall Street, or California for Hollywood but rather in Virginia for defense contractors. It's obvious too by the way that Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Mike Rogers shill for their wealthy patrons the Surveillance Industrial Complex.
Hey, didn't DNI James Clapper come from contractor Booze Allen Hamilton, too?
Feinstein could probably buy Hollywood with all the money she gets from AIPAC.
Our "security structure" has grown massively in the last decade. We've had it back to Wilson's regime, but at no time did it explode like it has since 9/11. I think the majority of voters don't have a clue, many don't WANT clue.
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