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[quote=Anonymous]Ronald Reagan campaigned as a fiscal conservative, but once in office, he funneled a lot of money into defense contracts, some of them worthwhile, but many less so ("Star Wars") that were conducted by contractors in Va. We called them "Beltway Bandits" but they were almost all on the VA side. See the DCUM thread on "FFRDCs." Bush the younger doubled down with more money, and huge deficits, to contractors like Booz-Allen and CACI (waterboarding anyone?). The DoD financed a networking scheme that led to the Internet --- designed at a building on Wilson Blvd. in Rosslyn, where there is a plaque. SAIC bought the rights from Network Solutions in what may have been a very shady deal to allow them to charge a fee for registering a dot.com address. A license to print money. Bottom line: Defense money, paid for by taxpayers, made NOVA.[/quote]
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