Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "Shokin returns. Biden impeachment inquiry gains momentum" video.
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Calling this trouble in the US a "Cancer" seems to me to be a very good analogy.. It is embedded deeply in the substance of the US, in the central nervous system if you like. It further resembles a cancer in that as time goes on it takes more and more of the substance of the US, more of its lifeblood, if you like. It is also a very hard thing to break into, because it is circular in nature and very self-protective. I am sure that if anyone were seriously to threaten this cancer, their life would be in danger. The flow of money in it is circular but it all eventually comes from outside the cancer which consumes, but produces absolutely nothing , but trouble.
Being a vicious circle (A very vicious circle!), you cannot "start at the beginning", because there is no "beginning". So let's start with the Arms industry and the MIC. This is a series of very large companies and thousands of little companies that supply the big companies and their plants are spread in every state of the union. They all ultimately depend to a large extent, on orders from the USG. These orders are all more or less authorized, approved by or passed by or ignored by congress. The companies employ lobbyists to find out who will support the government in ordering large amounts of expensive equipment or expensive research from the MIC. The members of congress want the companies to prosper, because they provide relatively stable and well-paid work in their constituencies. As most of them have investments in the companies of the MIC they also like the fact that when these companies prosper, they themselves, receive large dividends from them. If a member of congress happens to land a position on a committee which has influence on what orders are placed with the MIC, when they retire, they will probably be offered a sinecure position on the board of one or more of these companies. When they are up for election, they will be given campaign contributions if they promise to support the arms program and if they do not so promise, their opponents will be given campaign contributions to run against them. The money that the lobbyists contribute, of course, comes from the companies of the MIC. Thus the circle is completed. For the people on the inside of this circle it is a very satisfactory set-up. For those on the outside it is really like a cancer in the body-politic.
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