I think NeverForgetBattan has been believing too much of the liberal media's spin and stereotyping... The big-bad military-industrial complex must be lazy and evil. I don't believe anything the liberal MSM puts out. So when they try to characterize defense contractors as lazy/overpaid, I'm pretty sure (and from my experience back in the day) the exact opposite is true.
And hey, if his buddies that work for a defense contractor are successful and can afford nice vacations, why be jealous? Instilling jealousy and envy are liberal class warfare tactics. If his buddies are over-charging, someone else will come along and take their contract from them next time around. If they're providing a useful product/service at a fair price, but making a profit, I don't see a problem with it. That's capitalism and free market.
Folks grumble about the cost of these systems, but they would also come unglued if a single person died due to a failure.
Peoples lives depend in this stuff.
I has NOTHING to do with being Liberal (which I sure as hell am NOT) or being Conservative.
It has to do with the fact that this country is BROKE! And we might just have to accept that and live with the hardware that we have now. Just like the way many furloughed people have to put off buying things they want until they can afford them. But, NEVER point that out to people who get their paychecks from the Federal Gub-”MINT”
or from it by proxy at at defense contractor, because they will turn and snarl and say “how dare you question our RIGHT to this piece of the pie”.
And I’m not jealous of these people but as a vendor to them I see allot of things that disgust me about the way they
operate. The Military/Industrial complex in not “evil”, but it HAS become self-serving and fat. If you think not I think you are deluding yourself.