[patdennis]

It's not true. If it was nearly that simple, it would be a lot easier to fix.

[quaunaut]

Dingdingding. It's more that military contractors have jobs in literally every district in the country, which makes anything done against them 'hurting jobs', etc. There's a lot of money funneled in that direction, but it isn't because of cronyism or anything- just pure hard corporate strategy choices.

[cpeterso]

But who would fix that problem? Congress?

[patdennis]

We're talking about changing fundamental aspects of our society, not patching some code.

It would require a massive cultural shift, on a number of levels.