US Congress Owned by the Military Industrial Complex

In a Wall Street Journal news article published today, titled "Defense Firms Gird for Fight to Find Profits", it was reported that, "the Pentagon doesn't want more C-17 transport jets, which Boeing has produced for years, though Congress is pushing to keep on buying them".

If this doesn't show the relationship between the large defense businesses and our chosen representatives, I don't know what does. It is clear that Congress takes its queue on what to buy from the providers of defense goods, rather than the Pentagon. Who would know what we need to operate our current defense strategy more than the Pentagon?

I can't wait to hear all of your thoughts on this one. But, if you are going to tell me that this is not surprising, then I hope you will either enlighten me on why this is either a good thing, or how we can try and take back our government.

It would seem that as long as various defense related businesses are employing large numbers of Americans all around the country, that it is going to be a hard sell to get any representative to stand up to them. Even though the Pentagon doesn't want more C-17 Globemaster III aircrafts, there are jobs attached to the creation of those planes. If stopping their production is going to cause the loss of tens of thousands more jobs in this already troubled economy - who among those who refused to let other private sector businesses fail will stand up and say enough is enough?

With war being such a big business in our country, how can we ever hope to bring about peace? It seems clear to me that the only way to overcome this bellatorious-cancer is to create more jobs that yield higher pay than those offered by the war-machine. So, get your thinking caps on. Ready? Go!