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Originally Posted by slapass
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Yes that's covered in the documentary as well. These govt contractors have gone through great pains to make sure their operations are spread all across the United States in every state they can manage to do something in.
What this does is essentially secures their future business prospects because it means any sort of defense spending cuts affect every damn state in the union in one way or another because jobs will be lost.
No Senator is going to vote to lose jobs in his own state if he wants to get re-elected, doesn't matter what side of the aisle he sits on.
If you like that documentary, the same guys released one on the war on drugs and the privatization of the prison system. It's also well worth the watch and shows how the war on drugs is essentially feeding the same kind of deal as what goes on with defense spending. It's called "the house I live in".
http://www.thehouseilivein.org/