You're telling me that the military industrial contractors...are ripping us off?
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026
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Good? American Military is fucked because it exists more for the Shareholders than old school Imperialism at this point.
Old school imperialism also existed for the stakeholders. It's just that old school imperialism grows hungrier while its food is fighting back, so in it's anger, old school imperialism is cannibalizing itself
it's definitely also about firearms because liberals don't understand anything about anything and the war lobby doesn't spend nearly as much time or money on state reps.
As I understand it these government contracts basically go out to companies who have a monopoly on duopoly on the thing they sell and with anything at all complex their supply chains basically stretch down tens of contractors and subcontractors each. Each subcontractor puts at least 20% profit margin in their intermediate product and that scales the costs with each step. It infuses so much basically free government money into the private economy, when pretty much all other type of manufacturing is impossible in the US, thanks to inflated living costs and cost of labor. It only happens when there is a high value added product with a monopoly OR when its subsidized by the buyer of last resort with infinitely deep pockets, that is the government and the military. Without these contracts many big corporation (not just pure MIC) would become totally unprofitable and US would lose even last of it's manufacturing and basically collapse and american economy with it. They literally have to let the taxpayer be ripped off and let them produce everything with massive profit margins or the whole house of cards topples down.
That constantly breaking piece of shit?
I'd need more explanation of this because H Bush's whole shtick was setting up the military to be privatized. They didn't just ask for it, they moved heaven and Earth to make it so. It was the project of projects to privatize everything.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but if you're right you'll be at the intersection of a massive contradiction.
They get whatever budget they ask for