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by Dirlewanger 1934 days ago
Yup. A bit offtopic, but these kinds of legislative plays are why something like the military-industrial complex is so hard to break.

Yeah, it'd be great to shut down that UTC plant that subsists entirely on defense contracts, but it's been in the community for 50 years and provides thousands of jobs. Good luck running for that district on a platform of wanting to kill local jobs.

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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."