“The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and, most importantly, of enormous outlays of capital supplied by the Pentagon to arms contractors.” FormRiskSpecialMilitaryArmsPrivilegeProfitEnormousBudgetsBarrelsPorkPentagonContractorMilitary BudgetPork Barrel Book:Indispensable enemies: the politics of misrule in America Source: Indispensable enemies: the politics of misrule in America
“What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.” WayNeedsPowerfulCitiesMilitaryRefuseEnormousUselessBudgetsDumpExpendituresPentagonMilitary Budget Author:Walter Karp
