Re:Boeing chief must have engineering background, Emirates b...
by FredPret on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @10:50AM
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First of all calm down please. I’m trying to have a factual and calm conversation.
Second of all OK nice and where is all that money going? Sure, generals as directors, politicians making killer stock investments. But I don’t see these trillions in the form of corporate profits, or missing tax money. The money is almost entirely accounted for (ie audited) and the numbers are reasonable.
The US pissed away a ton of money in the middle east, but that money is hardly missing - we know where it went.
Like you don't understand that if you're a senior executive at a massive defense contractor you can hire former generals who just signed off on your bid to lucrative consulting agreements, you can put politicians on your board of directors (ie Nikki Haley @ Boeing) and employ their children's PR firms and "strategy consultancies" and so on.
It's not fraud in the legal sense, it's just disgusting and I agree it shouldn't happen. But it's all right out in the open and how the system works.
I'm not really asking if you agree, I'm describing something I have seen first hand.