
Ep. 2252 The Military Can't Win the War on Drugs, and Other Lessons from U.S. Foreign Policy
The Tom Woods Show
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The F-35 Fighter Jet Becomes Too Big to Fail
The F-35 fighter jet is produced by Lockheed Martin. I think it's over 45 states. So it becomes a too big to fail project where so many people have a vested interest in perpetuating it. Members of Congress are fully aware of this and take proactive steps to organize production this way. And so what you get is this setup where it's supposed to be for the common good, the public interest, the national interest,. But you start unpacking this and you realize that it's simply a shell gameWhere people are moving resources around to benefit them and their friends and cronies at the expense of the public at large.
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