1961: President Eisenhower warned us against the Military Industrial Complex

In 1961, Dwight Eisenhower warned against the “unwarranted influence” of the ­“military-industrial complex.” Fifty years later, on Dec. 15, 2011 — to mark the anniversary of Eisenhower’s address — a renowned defense expert argued that things had gotten much worse and far more corrupt. Congress had itself been captured by the system, he said, which should now be called “the military-industrial-congressional complex.” The expert spoke of the rampant use of earmarks, “congressional pet projects, unwanted by the administration but amounting to billions of dollars annually that . . . waste taxpayer resources for years and sometimes decades.” He decried the revolving door between Pentagon senior brass and Beltway lobbyists, and the uncompetitive, non-market method of buying weapons systems. “Over the last decade or so,” the expert concluded, “what I have described here has resulted in a massive windfall for industry. But for the taxpayer and the warfighter, it has been an absolute recipe for disaster.”
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This is why it is now called: "The Military industrial Congressional Complex" because not only is the Pentagon unfathomable the corruption now reaches into the Congress as well because men and women in Congress no longer can get elected without Pentagon "Kickbacks" to give them enough money to buy air time to put down their opponents. So, now the Congress is as corrupt as the Pentagon and all a part of the same thing.

So, we have a do nothing Pentagon and a Do Nothing Congress both of which are so self serving and not existing for the Average American that they are both the financial death of the average American both now and into the future.

So, the next time you cannot feed your child just look at one or the other of the causes, the Pentagon and the Congress.

I wish this weren't true but unfortunately it is. Eisenhower was right. Only now it is 10 or 100 times worse than 1961.