"Beware the military industrial complex who'll have every incentive to keep a profitable war going long after its lost" - Eisenhower.

That Sarah Huckabee Sanders clip gets me "It will bring in 30 new jobs" the population of Arkansas is 3,060,000 30/3,060,000 or 1/102,000. That created a new job for every 1 in 102,000 citizens, those numbers are just so small its comical

"I think the economy is down because we built too many houses." Well that quote aged like fine milk.

"Because we build too many houses" How crass.

Amazing work. It's absolutely crazy that all of this info is buried inside 100% government reports, not a whistleblower or leaked docs.

"War is a Racket" by Marine General Smedley Butler

Those military corps survive on government contracts and they overcharge like $300 for parts you can buy for$15… it’s like how the hospital charges you $45 for 2 ibuprofen or $15 beer at events 🧐

It’s a shame how many talented smart people can’t put their efforts into something that isn’t a killing/money-laundering machine.

Fed: can afford 1T a year on the war businesses and many billions in Wall Street handouts Claims: can't do anything to relieve extreme poverty or do green energy MAKES SENSE Edit: "This is fine"

I think a lot of people know at a gut level we're not creating more high-value, sustainable employment opportunities by fueling or creating conflict in the world. Our allies are beginning to see us as mercenaries, not fighting for humanity or justice. It's inevitable this will be uncovered and our weaknesses exploited. As you said, we've long neglected public goods like a working justice system, education, infrastructure and healthcare which is in part why the jobs that are created are so vulnerable to outsourcing. The U.S. has such weakened labor laws that it's becoming industry's sacrifice zone, but a lot of native-born U.S. members of the public simply don't know it because they've been fed the myth of U.S. exceptionalism and on average they don't have many opportunities to see other countries' policies in action. This is one key way the U.S. education system fails students. It simply doesn't teach them outside perspectives or how other countries organize and prioritize their domestic policy agendas. I think the domestic gains of the Baby Boomers are fading and there are now generations of U.S. citizens who have never known what it looks like to truly prioritize domestic policy.

Imagine if 'supporting American workers' meant free higher education so we can qualify for careers that might help us lead a comfortable life (and better contribute to the economy) without making a gamble on student loan debt:future income ratios. That'd be so weird.

The defense industry doesnt "rip off" Uncle Sam, though. Uncle Sam helps his buddies.

Sure is discouraging how deep their greed addiction is. To the point that it’s human extinction even without nuclear holocaust.

In the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition from Star Trek, the 34th rule states "War is good for business."

This whole video had me increasingly more outraged as the information kept coming... 😢 WE HAVE TO DO BETTER! 😤😤😤😤

"Building the arsenal of democracy" should tell you all you need to know right there.

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

The military industrial complex is wayyyy too powerful, both literally and figuratively. 😢😭

War is a policy choice.

Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, just for a start and DOD contractors. Hell they just failed yet another audit.

"Yes, our healthcare system is messed up, but have you seen our military budget? It's huuuuuge, isn't that great??" Said no one intelligent ever.

Our economy is deeply integrated into defense/wars that stopping will cause chaos. People will lose their pensions. Some will literally end up homeless. It's ridiculous how we let it go for so long.

“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.” - MLK, Speech to the Negro American Labor Council, 1961. “We must recognize that we can’t solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power… this means a revolution of values and other things. We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together… you can’t really get rid of one without getting rid of the others… the whole structure of American life must be changed. America is a hypocritical nation and [we] must put [our] own house in order.” - MLK, Report to SCLC Staff, May 1967. “The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.” - MLK, Speech to SCLC Board, March 30, 1967.

Has anyone ever wondered why politicians get rich? I haven't.

"War is a racket"-General Smedley Butler, 1935

There are people in this world in which their greed holds no boundaries. They have power and wealth they refuse to relinquish. They have thrived off of the fruits of the common man’s suffering. Just a means to an end.

Great video! Good timing, too, as the Pentagon fails its 6th audit (out of 6). Thank you!

I hate it when politicians lie, and they say we created 500,000 new jobs when in reality, it's about 480,000 jobs, and they're just rounding up the numbers to make it look better Also out of 480,000 jobs, only half of them 240,k are actually full-time good Paying jobs, where the other ones are only part time temporary, crappy jobs

It comes to me as no surprise that a stimulus in money to a company actually resulted in monopolistic acquisitions layoffs and stock buy backs. Its like the shareholders see the extra money coming in as a direct windfall to their bank accounts and always move to transfer that money to themselves before everything and everyone else. Ie embezzlement. Reverse stock buy backs, stop funneling money to monopolies and companies that transfer money away from their employees (by layoffs or low wages).

People in government need to read Smedley Butler. War is a racket.

This is rapidly becoming one of my favorite channels.

Every American needs to see this, even the ones who know it’s happening.

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Did Sarah huckabee lantern say 30 jobs. Like three zero for a 33 million dollar facility? I wonder what those jobs paid.

This presentation points to the effects of other mechanisms that were not intended to have the results highlighted as mentioned. I am Curious, with the proposed budget cuts, who else was privy to the conversations that Robert Reich had with a banker and an executive that decided to place stock performance to CEO pay and at the same time have knowledge of the consolidation of the defense companies 🤔

Broken window fallacy - destroying a window and paying to replace it doesn't stimulate the economy, it just wastes resources and society does not see a net benefit. Similarly, spending on military just to stimulate the economy doesn't provide benefit, it just increases the tax burden (the deadweight loss grows with the square of the tax rate), and thus people have less to spend.

Another thing to look at is just how bad our structure for government programs are. This is part of the reason why the DoD hires so much externally, because they cannot for the life of them manage training or smart hiring practices or keep a culture of talent internally, so it is consistently outsourced to contractors. This means the people making decisions are almost entirely at the mercy of contractors to think for them. It's not unique to the DoD either.

What is the 34th Rule of Acquisition?

To paraphrase that one executive that you quoted: Capitalism is killing it....literally killing us.

2:01 it's important to note here that WWII was the last official war the US had. It is also the last war that we "won". We have lost every one since then. Korea ended in a draw, the VC held power in Vietnam, Iraq was a loss, Afghanistan was a loss. This is an important point for this piece because it delivers the message that the corporate oligarchs send our troops to die with complete disregard. Win or lose they still profit. From both sides. The longer the conflict the more they make. It's about money and that's all. That's why we are bolstering Israel in their genocide campaign. #freepalastine #freegaza #nowarforprofit

Well, when any profitable business interests on the top of the corporate food chain can literally buy any elected person what do we expect?? You do know every single level of so-called governance country (local, county, state, federal) has been 100% and bought and paid for before those people ever sat down in their chairs right??

You guys do amazing work! Thank you!

wow this is another solid piece of content from this channel

I love this channel because y'all go after war mongering and neoliberalism in general, party be damned.

Excellent video! Keep them coming, and I pray your organization remains safe as you comtinue speaking truth to power.

War is big business and fat profits for the money class with suffering and death for the poor and working class. I’m not certain about the middle class, however.

Highly informative, thanks MPU for doing such a great job with this video. 💯👍🏽

As someone who is planning to work in defense after college, I agree with alot of what this video has to say. I noticed at an internship that the whole process of contractors and government interacting is a massive waste of time, money and effort. These companies only sell to the US government (except Boeing) so I don't see why they aren't just part of the government to save the tax payer money by having cheaper government employees VS. expensive CEOs. It would just streamline the whole R&D process. That said I do think that it's necessary to have a peace time defense work always innovating and producing weapons. Modern weapon systems are incredibly complex machines that require talented engineers and skilled technicians to make. It takes years if not decades to go from a new idea to an operational system and even more time to build enough of that thing to matter. And even then these systems expire after enough time and then need decommissioned and replaced. So permanent production is very necessary to ensure force readiness and capabilities. Again though with our current system of contractors so much money that could be R&D or larger production lines is just lost to shareholders and corporate management. On another note I do find your representation of our support to Ukraine to be in poor taste. I think the Dod supporting Ukraine is the only good thing they've done in my life and we aren't just sending them new supply of equipment, we are sending them stockpiled weapons. That's why the "billions of dollars" we are sending to Ukraine isn't making jobs because we aren't using money at all, we just send what we already built and the price tag on that is just how much that thing cost when it was bought.

🙏 thankful for what 'More Perfect Union' channel does. Makes a difference, opens minds.

this is beyond evil. I'm from a country that benefited from WW2 but I'd never dare wish for another one just so I can have an easier time?

This channel is putting thier freedom at risk to deliver the truth. Lets suupport them if we can.

Thanks for posting

As long as the wealthiest can profit from wars, there will be constant wars.

THIS!!! ALL OF THIS!!!! #FREEPALASTINE #FREEGAZA

God these videos are so fcking amazing. Definitely have you all on my top 3 org to donate to when I get a chance! Thank you so much for educating us in a not so boring way!

I'm finding it really difficult to not be overwhelmingly hate-filled lately 😞

I get that. Just how many jobs does a jet fighter that costs $150 million apiece create? Also, from my understanding of the arrangement, the defense industry is the only one that gets "costs plus", or in other words, guaranteed profits.

Greed kills.

Wars are profitable at the top and deadly at the bottom.

Very informative and great work as always

Keep spreading the good news. Love this channel!

A balance is needed for the needs of defense & the other needs of this nation. There is a need for both in this world.

EXCELLENT REPORT!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? - Eleanor Roosevelt

Jobs programs are the worst. We need to look at what we need and hire people to do that, instead of looking for ways to hire people and hope its useful.

Thanks!

Great video, thanks m8s

Wow great topic and great video as always.

There is a revolving door of personell and cash between heads of government defense contractors. Their kids also

Half of DoD's budget goes to defense contractors.

Please keep in mind that the workers at Raytheon, Lockheed, Boeing, NASA, SCA contracts are all represented by Unions. In fact they are the 600k members of the IAM-AW.

Jobs! Jobs, peasants! Rejoice! Don't look too closely; it's REALLY complicated. Focus on your labor. It's Jobs! Your instant gratitude is expected.

The interest paid a day on the deficit is the whole military budget - pbs report yesterday.

Wow such a good video, really deserves more views.

Keep up the great content 🔥

incredibly eye-opening

Alot of people knew of this lie, they just werent aware how deep it goes and who tells it

Wonderful, thank you.

We have a monopoly of monopolies. It pays to be rich:/

Nothing but the truth 👍

There should be no incentive for speculators to make money on war machines.

I always want to know but then feel a bit sick after I do.

Oh Jesus man bun. Thanks for the obvious.

Great video. Russia's invasion of Ukraine I think illuminates two things about military spending. There are some governments other than the US that will also use force to further their goals, so until someone comes up with a good plan to get rid of it, we need a military. The other thing that it illuminates is that a military is the best way to funnel money with little oversight or accountability. See, if the objective of giving aid to Ukraine was to help them retake their sovereign borders that would have been accomplished by now. The US could have provided F-16s, helicopter gunships, precision-guided artillery, drones, etc. The Ukrainian armed forced are very resourceful and adaptable. But that isn't the objective. Instead our main focus is on using up obsolete equipment that will then have to be replaced by purchasing the newest and most expensive stuff. It also provided a great testing ground for equipment and doctrine...like Israel's invasion of Gaza.

I think America needs to revisit what "freedom and justice for all" actually stands for.

Excellent report:)

Yet another instance of having one's leg pissed on and being told it's raining. At what point are Americans going to push back on getting pissed on?

Capitalism is a sick economical and behavioral strategy.

Ah yes, nothing like looking at war and thinking.. I'm gonna get rich Argument against pure capitalism

Good work,it makes a good difference.

The military industrial complex is the biggest national security risk we've ever faced.

This is something straight outta Cyberpunk!

Just another day in the world's longest running soap opera!😒😦😣

War is a Racket, Smedley Butler

Yep

Can a money management group be created under the guise of investor money going towards gaining a majority share of these companies so decisions regarding labor can be more favorable?

Not jobs, PROFIT !

Since Lockheed Martin is rolling in billions and billions of dollars, Lockheed Martin can afford to pay me the monthly pension they once promised me. And not a lousy $200 a month, either.

idk what to do really, i think it seems like people are not pissed off enough like we used to be during less politically stuck times, or those that are pissed off are so oppressed and poverty stricken that they have no influence. organizing is exhausting and doesn't really lead anywhere anyways because of citizens united, and most people near the poverty line are lulled into complicity by baseline levels of comfort and security so there's no engagement because the capitalist class has arranged just enough money for the people to keep them pacified. it's not like we can afford to "wait for gen z to fix everything". but power structures are SO different and so much more ingrained than they ever were in the past that methods that have worked historically are simply not feasible anymore. help?

4:50 was that a vine boom sound effect??