Now I get it. It's still total BS.

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24. Normally the M-I-C loves periodic wars to burn off stuff that has to be replaced

But there is an art to these war-for-profit games. Yes, you want to burn off the supply of missiles and other consumables so that Congress will appropriaite more money. And you want to identify INCREMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS that will be "absolutely necessary to maintain readiness". The incremental thing is really important because you want Congress to approve hundreds of billions for these "absolutely necessary" improvements, but you donlt really want to engineer very much.

What Trump and the drunken Secretary did here was exactly the opposite. They burned off 5-10 years' supply, but they did it by matching our multi-million dollar ordnance gainst $20,000 drones. If Congress has any brain cells and integrity, they will be challenging EVERYTHING the Pentagon asks for. And that is the last thing the M-I-C wanted to see. Every word that Eisenhower spoke in his Farewell Address is true and 66 years later, we see how this has led to our hollowed-out middle class.