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Steve: when the more interesting aspects of that that debate is the establishment conservatives them more gop is more skeptical for military intervention or push to cut defense spending. there is an policy challenge we should be skeptical of the military-industrial complex. we really do need a strong defense base so how do we square the circle? and even though they are on different sides of the political divide may agree on some of the answers. and with the american economic liberties project dire director, great to see both. what do you think about this? how do we get the strong defense base ...

The total collapse of the manufacturing component of the defense base. >> in world war ii we had roughly one dozen contractors for every major weapon system if one could not do it there were 11 other options and they had bargaining power to ensure quality and the ability to produce what we needed. that slowly shrank until the 1990s we had 100 prime contractors and then the clinton administration consolidated into five. now we have five prime contractors who are price givers to the government and it is incredibly inefficient. so when a contracting officer goes out and says we need whatever it i...

Steve: when the more interesting aspects of that that debate is the establishment conservatives them more gop is more skeptical for military intervention or push to cut defense spending. there is an policy challenge we should be skeptical of the military-industrial complex. we really do need a strong defense base so how do we square the circle? and even though they are on different sides of the political divide may agree on some of the answers. and with the american economic liberties project directo director, great to see both. what do you think about this? how do we get the strong defense ba...

The total collapse of the manufacturing component of the defense base. >> in world war ii we had roughly one dozen contractors for every major weapon system if one could not do it there were 11 other options and they had bargaining power to ensure quality and the ability to produce what we needed. that slowly shrank until the 1990s we had 100 prime contractors and then the clinton administration consolidated into five. now we have five prime contractors who are price givers to the government and it is incredibly inefficient. so when a contracting officer goes out and says we need whatever it i...

Steve: when the more interesting aspects of that that debate is the establishment conservatives them more gop is more skeptical for military intervention or push to cut defense spending. there is an policy challenge we should be skeptical of the military-industrial complex. we really do need a strong defense base so how do we square the circle? and even though they are on different sides of the political divide may agree on some of the answers. and with the american economic liberties project directo director, great to see both. what do you think about this? how do we get the strong defense ba...