How Defense Contractors Are Stealing YOUR Money & Getting RICH

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High-ranking military officers are being placed at major weapons manufacturers such as Boeing, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin as part of a taxpayer-funded fellowship program. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Your Support is Crucial to the Show: https://tyt.com/team

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“For nearly three decades, the Department of Defense has used taxpayer money to send elite military officers to work for some of the Pentagon’s top private contractors. The public-private arrangement has allowed corporate lobbying disguised as policy recommendations to reach the highest branches of the Defense Department, according to an exclusive report from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft shared with The Lever.

From 1995 to 2021, more than 315 military officers with elite ranks as high as colonel and rear admiral have been placed at top weapons manufacturers such as Boeing, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin, as well as other companies with billion-dollar government contracts. The arrangement has also coincided with a dramatic rise in Defense Department spending on private contractors valued in the trillions of dollars.”

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  2. Outsource: We the security risk it represents for the country, random contractors we no real background reviews because they want to save money. It's not only that they steal money and corruption is the security of the nations that is on the table.

  3. This is how this scam has been working for the past 75 years and ain't no one has even tried to stop this. Post all lobbyist who they work for who they give money to and how much post evry bill these Congressmen vote for if this gets enough light and expose these people for who they are evil can't stand in the light
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  4. Look dude….. The inflation of EXPECTATIONS in women, the high taxes, inflation period, it's making American MEN OF ALL RACES LEAVE AMERICA FOR GOOD. Americans can easily afford living anywhere overseas…. With peace. What OFFER DOES AMERICA HAVE for American men TO STOP THIS…. LET ME KNOW.

  5. Just Imagine how much They are Stealing from The USA over in Ukraine without any oversight. 61 billion More dollars after they took 100 billion dollars. That's a pretty good Racketeering and Embezzlement scheme for Congress, their families and Their friends. You don't really think that Only The military is behind it do you ? . They are all taking a slice of the pie !. DHHS does the same thing with The Divorce Industry and The local Health departments in each state. I call it The Tax Subsides Gravy Train, "All Aboard ! " , Judge's get ready cause the train is coming, police and lawyers just come aboard ! . Counselors and doctors the train is coming, All you need to do is to make DHHS your Lord !.

  6. U have realized this scam after being looted for trillions of usA taxpayers$$. Do the math from the war on terror till date…love 2 usA taxpayers…❤

  7. In other words capitalist brainwashing of Military officers for the further profit of corporate America. 🙄

    “War is a racket”- Smedley Butler

  8. Not as much of an issue as how government mismanagement is costing us $1T a day. With Entitlements the number 1 expense right after the interest on the federal debt.

  9. End corporate personhood. Five persons decided that a corporation is a full person and granted corporations the "GOD" given right to deceive and never to beheld accountable. The five persons were placed on the Supreme Court by the Republican party.
    End Citizen United. End government instituted between corporations and Men.

  10. I think what angers me the MOST about defense contractors is the WASTE. They waste a HUGE amount of money they are given on useless products for the military or research and design for military hardware that goes nowhere. It would be so much easier to stomach of the money was spent well and carefully but when you look into it, the Pentagon and defense contractors are just pouring it away while we can't get universal healthcare!

  11. Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense. We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net income of all United States corporations.

    Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence—economic, political, even spiritual—is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.

    In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together

    – President Dwight Eisenhower delivers his farewell address – January 17, 1961.

  12. We can thank John McCain for this program. In theory, it sounds nice, but it's clear that this program has been abused like most things involving the U.S. military and corporations.

  13. The sad thing is that this just shows Anna doesn't realize that the entire government contracts nearly all their services to corporations to perform. Low info take.

  14. Eh, there's broadening with tv stations and coca cola and even nba teams…. also hospitals…. this isnt as nefarious as it is being made out to be

    *edit: with or without that "fellowship" the way the economy has been set up, that contractor is being utilized one way or the other

  15. Donald J. Trump : Appoints weapon industry employee as Secretary of Defense
    Joe Biden : Appoints an employee of the same exact weapons manufacturer as Secretary of Defense
    This is the real uniparty long game: Stealing your money for eternity. That's what you will be voting for in 2024 😉

  16. The budget is inflated to begin with.. there's the video clip circulating, of someone holding up a bag of bearings and stating it's a $90,000 purchase..

    A bag of bearings you could probably get for 40 bucks? At best?

    🤷

    Also the report I read, (tyt may have covered it) a little bit ago, about a airline parts distribution company being bought out, and then raised the markups by something around 400%, for certain parts.

    😞

  17. Corruption between US Gov and Contractors goes back to the Civil War, read what Ulysses Grant say when he was President and don't forget the warning Dwight Eisenhower said when leaving the WH at the end of his term.

  18. Yea. And the Western Machine has made it so that even Corporations themselves, are "People" too. With all the Rights, benefits and even more of "Humans!" .. Because they are 'Incorporated' and many Protected setups, have infinite money.

  19. Part of the military benefit is the higher education Ana. Everyone from the lowest rank enlisted Admirals & Generals are expected to become better educated. If an officer knows how a company works, he can better understand what the company can and can't do for his service branch. He knows who to reach out to when problems show up.

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