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Lockheed Martin

Acquired

The Pros and Cons of the Military Industrial Complex

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A market cures a lot of problems, like price, serving the best product to customers. There are exceptions on all these things, but it doesn't solve for making sure that America stays globally competitive. And so the government has to put their hand on the scale and all these different ways in this market for that reason. Of the 2 million people employed by the military in the United States, do we need all 2 million of them today? No, it's to keep people in reserve, literally.

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