Reply #14: Remind her that it was Eisenhower who warned us...

[CBHagman]

...about the dangers of the military industrial complex. Oh, and a story in today's Washington Post indicates that Pakistan can't account for $1 billion of the billions we've sent it for their military, and that at least one administration official regards checking that out as "nickel-and-diming" funding -- as if a billion dollars were chicken feed.

David Cay Johnston also has a book out, a best-seller, called Free Lunch, which concerns corporate handouts. My impression is that it debunks the myth (so cherished by right-wing types)that CEOs are busy working their little fingers to the bone and creating wealth out of nothing, instead of using their power to finagle tax breaks and the like -- all while making hundreds of times what average employees earn.