{"id":140684,"date":"2024-02-27T17:26:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T00:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=140684"},"modified":"2024-02-27T17:33:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T00:33:04","slug":"william-hartung-false-job-claims-fuel-massive-pentagon-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/02\/27\/william-hartung-false-job-claims-fuel-massive-pentagon-budgets\/","title":{"rendered":"William Hartung, False Job Claims Fuel Massive Pentagon Budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>tomdispatch.com\/<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Imagine for a moment that I told you Congress was suddenly teetering at the edge of passing a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/senate-vote-aid-bill-israel-taiwan-ukraine\/story?id=107174930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$95-billion<\/a>&nbsp;bill to give many more Americans reasonable health care. No, it really doesn\u2019t sound likely, does it? Okay, then, how about Congress teetering at the edge of passing just such a bill to further arm Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan with American weaponry of all sorts? Oh wait, it may be to arm those countries further, but it\u2019s also to fund the giant all-American arms-makers, those key components of the military-industrial-congressional complex, since money for weaponry meant for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan will actually go directly to them, as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tomdispatch.com\/the-military-industrial-complex-is-the-winner-not-you\/\"><em>TomDispatch<\/em>&nbsp;regular<\/a>&nbsp;and Pentagon expert William Hartung explains today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and just imagine for a moment that, should those arms companies get such near-record funding anytime soon, some of that money \u2014 count on it \u2014 will be poured into endless cost overruns and distinctly dysfunctional weapons systems. You want an example? Take Boeing, which should be considered the poster child for such a reality right now. If you\u2019ve been watching the nightly news, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve noticed those Boeing 737 Max 9 commercial jets that were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/06\/business\/ntsb-boeing-alaska-door-plug-blowout-faa\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">discovered<\/a>&nbsp;to be missing door bolts after a door plug from one of them fell 16,000 feet into an Oregon backyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full Report<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-tomdispatch-com wp-block-embed-tomdispatch-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"e4DWVNuqA1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomdispatch.com\/war-is-bad-for-you-and-the-economy\/\">War Is Bad for You &#8212; And the Economy<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;War Is Bad for You &#8212; And the Economy&#8221; &#8212; TomDispatch.com\" src=\"https:\/\/tomdispatch.com\/war-is-bad-for-you-and-the-economy\/embed\/#?secret=WjtfY82L4h#?secret=e4DWVNuqA1\" data-secret=\"e4DWVNuqA1\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tomdispatch.com\/ Imagine for a moment that I told you Congress was suddenly teetering at the edge of passing a&nbsp;$95-billion&nbsp;bill to give many more Americans reasonable health care. No, it really doesn\u2019t sound likely, does it? Okay, then, how about Congress teetering at the edge of passing just such a bill to further arm Ukraine, Israel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}