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2010-01-10 07:53 PM
Pulkit
Coppell, TX
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Source: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100109/BUSINESS/1090357/1008/NEWS01/Raytheon+may+hire+more+workers+at+weapons+plant
Mitch McConnell recently secured $13 million in defense spending contracts for Raytheon. The manufacturing giant works largely in McConnell's home state of Kentucky and has contributed to an enormous growth of jobs for McConnell's constituency. In a plant near Louisville International Airport, employment has almost doubled, and Raytheon predicts that hiring will continue to grow in 2010.
While this may be great for the economy and certainly for Raytheon's recent hires, you have to wonder-at what cost? In all, McConnell has used his clout to funnel nearly 200 million dollars in defense-contract spending for Raytheon since 1998. Yes, by the US government climbing into bed with defense-contracting companies such as Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, the government can play a direct role in increasing jobs, but what does it mean to put so much money into defense?
Why do you think we constantly have to be in a war, why has the US gone from being a nation sometimes involved in wars to a war-nation? On the one had Obama says that going into Iraq was a mistake, while with his other hand he seeks to wage us into another war in Afghanistan. And if we play our cards right, we may even have a war in Yemen. To continue funneling such huge amounts of money towards defense means the military must continue to make use of its new toys. The only problem is that those new toys, well, they aren't toys. They kill people.
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