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Ezra A. Cohen
@EzraACohen
We must institute a four year ethics ban on 3 and 4 star General Officers and Flag Officers going to defense contractors after retirement.
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TimOnPoint
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How many undiscovered cases like this in the DoD?
“Burke directed lucrative Navy contracts to Next Jump in 2021 while serving as a four-star admiral, and the company later hired him in 2022 for a starting salary of $500,000 per year.” https://military.com/daily-news/2024/08/23/subpoenas-5-navy-admirals-requested-defendants-retired-adm-robert-burke-bribery-case.html
4:42 AM · Nov 29, 2024
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Lifetime ban. FFS.
Same here ---- permanent ban ---- "War is a Racket"
Even Ross Perot warned us --- Even Dwight Eisenhower warned us --- Even Smedley Butler warned us.
+1 How about a permanent ban, or at least 10 years. Eventually we do not need an army. I think Space Force, AF, Marines and Navy will be sufficient.
permanent ban
What?
+1. Clarification: The USA is not supposed to have an army during peacetime. The USA needs an army with based soldiers for now, at least until the border is fixed, invaders are out, and the Chinese Communists are replaced by a new system reflecting pre-Communist era values.
James Madison addressing the constitutional convention in 1787: “ A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.” ____https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/james-madison-birthday-quotes-from-the-most-quotable-founding-father
Elbridge Gerry, 5th Vice President of the USA “ What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty…Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.”—Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814), Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Member of the Constitutional Convention, spoken during floor debate over the Second Amendment, I Annals of Congress at 750, August 17, 1789” ____ http://www.vlrc.org/quotes.html. — theyhave the page wrong though, I’m still working on it. ____ pages 777-778 on page 778 https://www.congress.gov/annals-of-congress/page-headings/1st-congress/amendments-to-the-constitution/19358f interesting discussions on the Amendments to the Constitution
The same should apply to Pharma.
IMO ending drug patents would solve a lot of evil temptations.
GovernmentTaxpayers already pay for the research.Patents are an artificial government construct that promotes monopolies on health ---- ending in corruption.
Should be every General and even Colonels. SES also.
Something weird happened at PEO STRI (Army) in Orlando, FL between Cole Engineering and a SES- level civilian. DCIS raided Cole and PEO STRI and Ms Saunders (the head of PEO STRI at the time and a 1-star equivalent) was gone immediately.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2024/07/02/military-investigators-raid-contractors-near-armys-training-hq/
We are all waiting to see what happens from this. If Cole was guilty of wrongdoing, their contracts will have to be executed by other companies.
How 'bout not having defense contractors? If it's genuinely important, have a DoD employee do it.
lol YOU MEAN THE DEEP STATE? You mean the entrenched 30 year autocrat with keys to the secret file cabinets? Surprised how many people don’t really understand the deep state. They aren’t all evil monsters running the DOD they are the sweet lady that runs the office for 30 years and stops your orders from going through because it would mean work for her. It’s the kind helpful man who slow walks your orders because he has decided that your orders have no merit and again would mean he would actually have to work in his last years of retirement. These are the people you can’t get to work for you because they know better than you as the Commander. They have the right to stay in their positions until paid full retirement, with full benefits! Meanwhile the same soldier you condemn gets a small retirement and MUST get another job because they can’t live on their pension. 25-30 years and you don’t get squat. Instead how about we stop taking their benefits away. Support the war fighter.
A ban seems anti-USA since these are cream of the crop and these jobs are a good fit for these loyal commanders who have a lot of experience to share. We are all quick to condemn and as usual to throw the loyal senior soldier, sailor, marine and guardian out with the bath water. Not sure you should have the right to ban anyone from any job. Are you dumb enough to think that they will stop with just generals? Think freedom not laws. Everyone has the right to go where and whatever position they choose. Until they seem up to tricks that is what laws are for. Let’s stop condemning people before they commit a crime - that’s called socialism. Freedom must be free for everyone including our best most loyal military members. I see a slippery slope and Great Awakening should be the first to call it out!!!!