| It's like the $10,000 dollar hammer, but this is far worse. With the hammer, government apologists claimed it was to "secretly move money for DoD"... which really means it was the DoD and military just giving themselves a shit ton of money. The US is very corrupt. The DoD dodged a bullet when 9/11 happened because that was the day they were going to be put under investigation. Sadly enough, nothing happened at all, and this type of political graft is very common among the military and their politicians. A recent case for example is the head of University of California who does not even belong there and is completely ill qualified to lead a college. Her only real experience is as a _spy chief_ for the military and DHS. This type of political graft resulting from military connections is going to be far more common and invade further into civilian infrastructures. It's not like the NSA's complete treasonous behavior in spying on the US citizens they're supposed to protect isn't bad enough... that isn't even the tip of the iceberg, I'd wager. Before that of course was the CIA funneling drugs into cities to fund their own pockets and programs. Or even the joke of the "war on drugs" which all it was meant to do was control the profit flow of illegal street drugs. These styles of military programs, also known as soft power projection, directed at the US population and citizens is getting far more common and invasive. These days, it is almost considered the norm. |
> With the hammer, government apologists claimed it was to "secretly move money for DoD"... which really means it was the DoD and military just giving themselves a shit ton of money.
No, it was a $15 dollar hammer with $420 of project R&D costs averaged out and added to it: http://www.govexec.com/federal-news/1998/12/the-myth-of-the-...
The $435 price was then inflated to $600 by the media and finally $10,000 by you.