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To: all the best

Included in this author’s definition of the gravy train or “corporate welfare” is defense spending. So in this author’s opinion, the military hardware — fighter jets, missile defense systems, rocket launchers, guns and ammo, body armor, transport vehicles, etc. — used by our soldiers to defend our freedom is simply corporate welfare.


3 posted on 09/17/2014 7:05:19 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: VRWCmember

The threat to our freedom lies in Washington DC. Those folks have restrictr4d out freedom far more than any foreigners ever have or ever will. Wake up. Please.


6 posted on 09/17/2014 7:09:40 AM PDT by all the best
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Precisely...it seems more like the author is advocating business give their skills, services, and product to the government for free. Direct payments generally come from negotiated contracts and that is not corporate welfare.

If that is how the left wants to classify it, then every contract involving either defense or infrastructure is “fascist” and that is simply an unviable definition.


8 posted on 09/17/2014 7:12:07 AM PDT by EBH (And the angel poured out his cup...)
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Didn’t it just come out that the “war on poverty” cost far more than all the military spending during the same period?


10 posted on 09/17/2014 7:13:59 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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