Reply #24: The military industrial complex was/is part of the civilian economy.

[Ozymanithrax]

All those companies building eveyrthing from Aircraft carries to hammers employed millions of Americans over the last 60+ years and has been one of the main ways that the government reinvested back into America. For the best part of the empire, we requried there were very strict rules on who could make equipment for the military. They had to be American.

Globalism, another of those historical currents, is the reason we have lost industrial capacity. At one time, our steel making capicity was considered a critical part of our national security. Particulalry with Reagan, we accelerated moving industires off shore, though it started before him.