Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Missing Military-Industrial-Complex MoneyWhen Major General Smedley Butler made his case,"War is a Racket" he did not pull any punches. "The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten,
and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits – ah! That is another matter – twenty, sixty, one hundred,
three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent – the sky is the limit. All that traffic will bear. Uncle Sam has
the money. Let's get it." The business of military procurement has multiplied since his fateful revelations.
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
No Bid Government ContractsCorporatocracy is distinctly the dominate practice when it comes to doing business with the federal government. The once
embryonic relationships between favored companies and agency bureaucrats, have germinated into distinctive hybrid organisms.
Grafting into self-generating species resistant and virtually immune from pest control methods can be found in every area
of government expenditures. The big daddy of cozy dealing is that preverbal military-industrial-security complex.
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