The truth of the matter is that a lot of people thought, as my grandpop would say, the Recovery Act was the horse that was going to carry the sleigh, the entire economy, and pull it.

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Although defense contractors usually think of their customers as being military services and intelligence agencies, the truth of the matter is that they all work for a political system.

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