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Sanders Rips Lawmakers Saying 'We Don't Have the Money' While Backing $900 Billion for Military
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is he talking about active servicepeople because we've been there since forever
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.
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
It’s a school. That’s why.
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
I’m honestly having a hard time getting a read on you. Are you playing dumb/sarcastic in an attempt to bait people into what you perceive as some sort of inconsistency? Or are you genuinely asking? Your tone is very confusing.
My comment was a little more tongue in cheek/flippant. The joke being “it’s a school so the American government doesn’t care about it.“
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.
I’m not gonna lie it really reads to me like you’re looking for holes and not seeking actual understanding
It's pretty straightforward, the MIC is essentially the structure behind and around the military, namely defense contractors, the Pentagon, and politicians. AFAIK it doesn't actually include the rank and file armed services members. It's worth mentioning the term gained popular attention due to a speech by outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower, himself a retired 5 star general.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex
Of course not, active servicepeople are just another currency to the military-industrial complex.