Sanders Rips Lawmakers Saying 'We Don't Have the Money' While Backing $900 Billion for Military - eviltoast
Sanders Rips Lawmakers Saying 'We Don't Have the Money' While Backing $900 Billion for Military | Common Dreams
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"I think it's time to tell the military-industrial complex they cannot get everything they want," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "It's time to pay attention to the needs of working families."

“I think it’s time to tell the military-industrial complex they cannot get everything they want,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “It’s time to pay attention to the needs of working families.”

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    16·
    29 days ago

    MIC is the private companies that supply/support the military and profit from it. Everything from fuel to uniforms to electrical wiring in the bases.

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldEnglish
      316·
      29 days ago

      so, like also the schools that are on base too? because the janitor at the school on the base near me fell through their ancient roof a few weeks ago. like, I’m not so sure they’ve been getting everything they want

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
        9·
        28 days ago

        Nobody said the MIC’s product was good quality or well maintained. In fact the more they can charge for the less they can do means more profit. And if working class people die because of it then oh well.

        • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldEnglish
          110·
          29 days ago

          so the school isn’t MIC because it’s a school even though it supports the military and the people there profit from it, because it’s a school, but everything else down to the wiring on the base facilities (excluding the school even though the school is a base facility). I’m just trying to figure out where the line is

            • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              29 days ago

              I’m not looking for an inconsistency, I’m looking for a boundary. if the boundary for both “the MIC is everything that supports the military down to the air they breathe” and “the MIC gets everything they want”, it seems like that would exclude an awful lot of what we traditionally think of as the MIC, including the military.