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I wish there was anyone in Congress who opposed this sort of thing out of an understanding of the pernicious nature of the military industrial complex. I feel like it's a perfectly reasonable position to hold to not want your country to just be three defense contractors in a trench coat.
Don't be silly; America isn't three defense contractors in a trench coat.
It's at least half a dozen: Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, HII, and EB. And that's just the biggest ones.
I mean tbf they're not actually making new stuff either way. This is just old stuff that's not really used anymore.
The article is about the construction of a new factory.
Oh fair enough then.
Why would they? There's only 535 people in Congress. Giving each of them a million dollars in "donations" every four years is basically a rounding error.