Monday, June 25, 2012

Northrop Grumman's Revolving Door With Congress

http://www.thenation.com/article/168325/northrop-grummans-revolving-door-congress


Northrop Grumman, the fourth largest weapons maker in the world, follows the actions of Congress very closely. The F-35, which may cost over $1.45 trillion because of unprecedented cost overruns, an expensive surveillance drone program criticized as unnecessary, and even a new fleet of nuclear bombers are among the Northrop Grumman products that may be in jeopardy as the Pentagon is forced to trim fat from the military budget. But luckily for Northrop Grumman, which made$2.12 billion in profits last year, the firm essentially has a man on the inside of Congress with wide sway over how the government spends money on national defense.
it is rigged so as to not give "we the people" a ice cube's chance in hell.  will we ever be able to truly reform the gov't or are we forever relegated to being the gum on the bottom of the right wing shoe, just an annoyance that has to be dealt with but not saved or removed from their shoe.
this is perplexing, we need to purge the right wing rot from our gov't and allow for their re-emergence as a party less treacherous and predatory to "we the people". theni believe we can bring about real reform favoring all the people not just 1%.