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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Lane3 who wrote (92509)9/3/2018 6:17:15 PM
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Certainly we need something. And corporations providing it, conceptually speaking, are suppliers, not welfare recipients.

Many times when the military tries to cut a military program or a base, saying it isn't needed, Congress rebels. All the bases and programs that are in "my" district are needed!

And when Congress tries to tell the military to do more with less (as they did with the sequester), the military rebels. Somehow, the nation survived.

The military-industrial complex is a very strange phenomenon. Maybe the term "corporate welfare" doesn't describe it properly. But it is something akin to that, even if at the same time it is sui generis. Except it is even more insidious than run of the mill welfare due to the incredible amount of money that keeps it going.

Back in the 18th century when the Constitution was being debated, the Antifederalists were adamantly opposed to having a standing army. One of their main reasons was that it would always be a temptation for the president or the Congress to use it if it existed. It would be too easy, it should be harder to go to war, the public should be supportive enough to send their sons to fight.

They had a good point.
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