An example of what happens when the budget people want to cut spending on an item that provides jobs to a congressman's home district. Or more so if it involves several congressmen. The effort by the Pentagon to trim its budget in response to the budget hawks in DC has met with the desire for pork inherent in money fueled politics.
I have said before that this is no different from a budget viewpoint than spending that amount on teachers or schools except that those have a long lasting, significance. It is stimulus spending no matter how you look at it except that the money is going to the giant armaments corporations and then into the pockets of congressmen rather than to the middle class who would use it to promote the virtues that made our economy the envy of the world. No longer. Now we are the armorer to the world.
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