¶ Politicians & Defense Budgets
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Politicians & Defense Budgets:
“Because of the rocketing costs of TV time and other public relations organizations, politicians have become electable only by the money power either of unions or of business management; and since World War II’s close, it has been left to the politicians to keep the mass-production economy going and growing–a task which politicians of all sides found could be best accomplished through $50-100-billion-a-year ‘defense’ budgets, and having their military (or their satellite governments’ military) establishments continually buy ever-advancing power, range, and accuracy of their armaments’ hitting-power in anticipation of the always politically logical assumption of the ‘next’ vastly more sophisticated war.”
¶ Citations
- Building Industry, (4); 20 Sep’76
