Turns out, the Biden administration is expected
to request more than $770 billion October so for 2023.
Yeah, I know.
Crazy right.
That is apparently more important than eliminating child poverty or
stopping climate change now for $770 billion dollars for one year.
This is according to Reuters ongoing budget talks between
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and the White House Office of Management and
budget coalesced around a proposed defense request of higher than 770 billion for
2023 fiscal year, starting october 1st.
Now that's even more than what Trump was asking for back when he was president.
I don't know if you guys remember that Biden wanted
a little bit more than Trump back in 2022.
Congress gave him even more, give him $25 billion 778.
So I guess this time around, Biden's like okay, well let's just start with 770.
Want to bet it's gonna land at like 7
90 depending on how this whole Ukraine thing shakes out.
What does all this pay for?
Let's take a look.
The national defense top line budget includes pentagon budget spending for
on salaries, tanks, stealthy f 35 made by Lockheed Martin group as well as funds for
the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons programs.
Those sort of beautiful emblems to death among the top priorities for this budget.
Our shipbuilding development, developing capabilities in space, missile warning and
modernizing modernizing the nuclear triad of ballistic missile submarines,
bombers and land based missiles.
One of the sources said finally, who benefits from all this?
Well, the biggest beneficiaries of the budget would be us defense contractors
including Lockheed, Northrop Grumman Corp and General Dynamics Corp.
>> Yeah.
So I don't know, [CROSSTALK] Jake maybe we are going to war in Ukraine.
>> [LAUGH] Francesca.
That is so weird because I was sure that we were out of money because Joe
mentioned it in Christmas cinema.
And every corporate democrat and every single republican and
almost every reporter told us that during build back better.
That my God, we're worried about debt.
We're worried about deficit, we're worried about inflation.
How you gonna pay for that?
Well, okay, let me get a script.
I had the graphic eight for
a second to give you some guys a sense of context for the money.
Where does the money go?
Wait a minute.
This is curious.
I'm sure you've seen this all over mainstream media.
The pentagon's this is if you did it over 10 years as they talk about,
that's how they talk about what they call the reconciliation bill there is now
build back better.
So you guys remember when it was killed,
it was at 1.75 trillion Manchin said even that was too much.
But let's give him the 1.75 trillion again.
Remember that didn't even pass.
Okay.
But they said it was way too expensive at 1.75 trillion.
And that's part of the reason why they didn't pass it.
Look at the defense spending.
It said 8.31 trillion over 10 years.
I'm not great at math but
I'm pretty sure 8.3 trillion is a little higher than 1.75 trillion.
How many times have you heard cable news anchors say,
how are you gonna pay for that?
I've got the number of approximately zero.
No one questions it in Washington.
No one questions it on tv.
No one questions it in print.
Endless wars, endless money for wars that passes easily and
not just with republican votes with tons and
tons of democratic votes that's asked for by joe Biden.
The same Joe Biden that gave up on his own agenda build back better because it was
too expensive.
He couldn't find a way to pay for it.
But as soon as his donors at Lockheed Martin,
Northrop Grumman etcetera asked for what?
Well over four times that amount.
He's like right away sir.
Yes sir.
Absolutely sir.
What else would you like?
Raytheon sir.
So that's facts.
Everything else that corporate media tells you is spent by the way.
Also right wing media Donald Trump here's a ghost endless wars.
Well he has a funny way of showing it.
He didn't end any of those wars and he asked for record amounts for
defense spending to go to his donors who are also defense contractors and
now Biden not to be outdone said, remember how progressive I am.
I'll spend even more money on defense than Donald Trump did.
So as usual, corporate republicans and corporate democrats agree we should all
get screwed, we should be robbed of our money by these defense contractors.
And then when it comes time to giving you child tax credit or paid family leave or
lower drug prices.
Golly gee we can't find any money.
>> It's the ultimate like I feel like it has to do with Afghanistan,
which is the problem with the Afghanistan withdrawal had nothing to do with the fact
that weapons contractors and defense contractors didn't get their snacky.
They didn't get their ice cream sundae.
So I feel like but that's what Biden and
the administration is taking it from me like, no, we feel so bad.
We said you couldn't have a cookie.
Okay, you can have ice cream for dinner.
That's what $770 billion.
There you go. You eat ice cream for dinner and be happy.
Don't hurt us.
Don't be mad.
It's all just to like make sure that they're on board and
make sure and it's, that's terrifying.
That's terrifying that weapons contractors have so much pole.
But as Jenks said and
in the numbers they really are even on in terms of who's donating to whom.
So here's a graphic of the top contributions just from the last year,
2021 to 2022 from all these weapons contractors.
Right?
And you can see red versus blue where they're donating.
I know it's super small but Lockheed Martin split down the middle,
Raytheon split down the middle, General Dynamics split down the middle,
North of Grumman split right down the middle between republicans and democrats.
And that's from open secrets you guys should and can take a look at that
to bolster and buttress what Jake was saying about build back better.
Let's just look, let's compare.
What do you get for
your defense money versus what do you get with bill back better.
So let's start with build back better.
Alright 1.75 trillion over 10 years.
Remember 10, 0 after that you get universal pre K.
Childcare and enhanced child tax credits,
subsidies on affordable care act exchanges through 2025 I could use those federal
help to those who fall below the poverty line.
$570 billion into climate measures and
addressing affordable housing shortages shortfalls.
And again, that's the pair down this is the compromise.
This was the thing that maybe mansion would smell or
Christian cinema would taste really?
She didn't like it, put it back, it's not caviar.
Alright. What's in the defense budget?
Alright. It's gotta be better than that.
It's got to be better.
$770 billion dollars for one year policies.
War funding rich defense contractors.
I might add bases and $15.
15 bottled water dollar.
You know what I'm saying, Jake $15 bottled water.
That's what I meant to say.
>> Remember [LAUGH] those days like 20 years ago when they would do the stories
about like the $10,000 toilet seat and all those things.
You notice that they never do those stories anymore.
Because defense contractors did something that was brilliant.
They started advertising on television.
And they don't sell anything to the public, they sell missiles and
weapons etcetera.
The government is their main client.
So why are they putting millions of dollars in advertising when people can't
even buy their products?
Because they're not trying to do that.
They're trying to buy the media and they did wholesale.
So I'm gonna give you one last graphic geographic six,
just 200 defense companies reported lobbying the federal government in 2020.
The top five account for more than 50% of the industry's lobbying.
In the top 15, spent 75% of the lobbying money.
The five biggest spenders in 2020.
Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman.
Raytheon and General Dynamics spent $60 million altogether.
Now if you watch or read corporate media.
Yes, that includes New York times.
And Washington post and NPR is in the same exact culture.
MSNBC, CNN you name it.
Okay.
All of those people will tell you that the $60 million
Lockheed Martin ,Raytheon are just giving that for general charity.
They just happen to find a democrat that they like in a republican that they like
And they have to like a lot of them and they said,
you know what do what's best for the American people?
There's 60 millions on us.
We say they're spending that $60 million dollars to buy those politicians to
legally bribe them and that they're getting the votes of those politicians.
Now, those politicians, both republicans and
democrats are all going to vote for a bill that is four times the size of build
back better without a single moment's hesitation.
Whereas build back better got killed because they said it was too expensive.
Now, who do you think is right?
Do you think mainstream media covering for the politicians and
their own advertisers are correct that these defense contractors give money to
politicians out of the goodness of their heart and expect nothing in return?
Or do you think the trillions of dollars funneled to those contractors
might have something to do with illegal bribes.
They gave to all of those corrupt politicians.
Everyone knows the answer Francesca.
Everyone knows it it's so humiliating to be a mainstream media reporter or
editor who has to go out there and go, no, it's not true.
They're doing it for the general welfare and politicians are honest and
they don't care about the donor money humiliating.
>> And it's also unless we're in a hot war or like,
I mean they didn't care about Afghanistan until Biden decided to pull out of it.
Right? That's it.
That's the only time that they care.
They're not even gonna cover drone strikes.
Really?
But that's the only time that carries when it looks bad and
we get to funnel more money.
And again, you have to follow the money who's paying them,
who's behind that media coverage that can again keep on fueling this war
machine that's not making us any safer.
Guys who's being made safer by us amassing troops right now,
or like an anti missile defense system in Poland.
You guys totally me too.
I wake up every morning and I'm like, thank God for
that anti missile system that NATO and the UN and the United States.
That's it.
That's the one [LAUGH] I'm melting down Jake.
>> [LAUGH] No, but guys, you last thing in the article, they bother explaining,
but they don't say it as framing in the same way that I mean they say earnestly.
Well, obviously all of our weapons have to be modernized and
the weapons we just bought just a couple of years ago are now antiquated.
And have to be transitioned out why?
We just bought them a little while ago.
It seems like it's like a racket where you just keep buying new weapons that you
don't need and just taking the weapons that cost us trillions of dollars of
throwing it in the garbage.
Just so the defense contractors make more money.
That's what it appears to be.
But no the report writes it as no they have to be modernized.
The other ones have to be thrown in the garbage and
they don't note the political contributions.
They don't note that we bought those weapons just a little while ago and
when we bought them they were sold as modernized.
Amazing.
We'll have these forever and they will protect us forever and ever and ever.
A couple of years later they're inconvenient.
We need new weapons.
We have no excuse for buying new weapons.
They have to be modernized.
>> But Jake I wish they were thrown.
Last point I wish they were thrown in the trash instead.
They're used F 35 is being sold the U A E.
That is also with Saudi Arabia right now bombarding the people of Yemen,
starving the people of Yemen.
So now we take the old stuff.
We sell them abroad further destabilize the Middle East and
Central Asia and then it all just works, its magic just comes full circle and
it's a self fulfilling, disgusting prophecy.
>> If you are watching this and
you work in mainstream media just have a little bit of pride.
Just have some smidge of self respect and go ask your editor.
How come we never ask when it comes to defense contractor money?
How are you going to pay for that?
How come we've never ever asked that in our history?
And the minute you go to do something for the American people,
hey expand Medicare, lower drug prices, give people free college education.
We instantly, all of us in unison, scream, how are you going to pay for that?
Media in this country is disgusting.
Absolutely disgusting.