Greeby
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Thu Aug-11-05 12:01 AM
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The scam perpetrated by the Military Industrial Complex |
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I remember a few weeks back watching an edition of BBC Storyville called Why We Fight. It was about the Military Industrial Complex, and how everything Eisenhower warned about has come true.
And here's the part that gets your blood boiling. The scam is that when the Pentagon gives out a contract for a type of weapon, or plane, or tank etc. The bill comes back at ten or twenty times the cost it actually takes to build. :mad:
And Congress is hamstrung from doing anything about it, because these contracts bring jobs to their districts. And no Congressperson can afford to be seen denying jobs to their constituents. :eyes:
If only the money needed to make the weapons were used, the Pentagon's budget would be a lot lower
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wli
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Thu Aug-11-05 12:05 AM
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1. I'm guessing those may have something to do with the black budget |
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The CIA and perhaps other agencies are empowered to commit illegal acts (e.g. embezzlement) to make black budget appropriations. This sort of fraud, when it was able to be accounted, yielded an estimated black budget starting at 1.7 trillion annually in the late 1990's and growing up to 2.3 trillion annually in 2000 before the reporting of the statistics enabling such accounting was halted.
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wtmusic
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Thu Aug-11-05 12:17 AM
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2. And the worst part of all |
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wars are started to keep the pipeline moving.
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