This year when Alexi buys me my Chirstmas presents he will be able to afford it because of his job with Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin is a military defense contractor. They sell weapons to Israel, to the CIA, to the US Government to help overthrow foreign governments like in Venezuela. The election of republicans was good for Alexi’s company. It was good for immediate benefits for us as I open my christmas gifts. His mother advises I look at this as his “military service” but that really doesn’t make it better. The New York Times leads with an article about Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed and the Future of Warfare
By TIM WEINER (excerpt)
“LOCKHEED MARTIN doesn’t run the United States. But it does help run a breathtakingly big part of it.
Over the last decade, Lockheed, the nation’s largest military contractor, has built a formidable information-technology empire that now stretches from the Pentagon to the post office. It sorts your mail and totals your taxes. It cuts Social Security checks and counts the United States census. It runs space flights and monitors air traffic. To make all that happen, Lockheed writes more computer code than Microsoft.
Of course, Lockheed, based in Bethesda, Md., is best known for its weapons, which are the heart of America’s arsenal. It builds most of the nation’s warplanes. It creates rockets for nuclear missiles, sensors for spy satellites and scores of other military and intelligence systems. The Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency might have difficulty functioning without the contractor’s expertise. “
So you’re going to ask him for a Trocaire Global Gift right?
If it makes you feel any better… they hire people like Alexi and I. I mean, someone has to be screwing up somewhere to hire us :-)