The DC area, however, is cluttered with companies which exist merely to feed at the federal trough. Data companies, accounting companies, endless "defense" contractors and "research" organizations...all these add to the traffic in our area. And of course, they drain the nation's economy.
Inevitably, one way or another, they're going to disappear. And the mid-Atlantic will make Detroit look like the Lost City of Gold.
The weapons makers serve the purpose of making it possible for US to have a nation here rather than somebody else!