Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: September 16, 2011
Citing a new Pentagon analysis, Little said the defense industrial base provides 3.8 million private sector jobs. He said the 1 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate would include government, military and private sector jobs. He did not know how many jobs that entails or how many could be lost in the individual government [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: March 1, 2011
Any meaningful economic reform must include a loosening of the military’s grip on the economy. If that does not happen — if the man on the street is still locked out of the job he wants because his uncle isn’t a colonel, if an olive-oil vendor can’t get a license because the military contractor maintains [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: February 18, 2011
From this vast web of businesses, the military pays no taxes, employs conscripted labor, buys public land on favorable terms and discloses nothing to Parliament or the public. via Egypt’s Military Discourages Economic Change – NYTimes.com.
