The Military Industrial Complex, in service to companies like Raytheon, have controlled Washington D.C. since the 1950s. Armchair warriors on Capitol Hill, from both political parties, indeed, the only truly bi-partisan Caucus in Washington, are determined to keep American taxpayers in a state of perpetual financial bondage by the confiscatory taxation required to keep us in a constant state of just-in-time war readiness.
It isn’t supposed to be like this. In his farewell address to his new nation, George Washington, a seasoned General turned first President of the United States, warned about “overgrown military establishments.” 165 years after Washington’s warning, in another farewell address to the nation, Dwight D. Eisenhower, another General turned 34th President of the United States, warned about a “permanent armaments industry of vast proportions…”
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The Military Industrial Complex, in service to companies like Raytheon, have controlled Washington D.C. since the 1950s. Armchair warriors on Capitol Hill, from both political parties, indeed, the only truly bi-partisan Caucus in Washington, are determined to keep American taxpayers in a state of perpetual financial bondage by the confiscatory taxation required to keep us in a constant state of just-in-time war readiness.
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It isn’t supposed to be like this. In his farewell address to his new nation, George Washington, a seasoned General turned first President of the United States, warned about “overgrown military establishments.” 165 years after Washington’s warning, in another farewell address to the nation, Dwight D. Eisenhower, another General turned 34th President of the United States, warned about a “permanent armaments industry of vast proportions…”
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