Antiwar candidate Bernie Sanders faces backlash over the $1.2 trillion war machine he brought to Vermont
PUBLISHED WED, JUL 10 2019

(But his State benefitted financially, so there's an upside, right?)

This fall, Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II fighter jets will come to Vermont to be stationed at the Air National Guard Base at Burlington International Airport. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the state's junior senator and a 2020 candidate for the presidency, was one of several officials who brought the program to the state, but now some are saying they don't want it there.

The program has been valuable to Vermont's economy. Joan Goldstein, the commissioner of the Vermont Department of Economic Development, told CNBC.com that its impact on the state's aerospace and aviation industries has been nothing but positive.
And that's been key, considering the state ranks 44th in the nation in terms of economic growth and in last place for its workforce in the 2019 CNBC Top States for Business study released on Wednesday.
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Good Read about this subject.
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Can one be both anti-war AND support the profits of it, too?

I personally stand with our NATO Allies & with the people of Ukraine & the region.
I'd like to see Vladimer Putin & his Oligarch mobster profiteers sanctioned so tight his filthy corrupt oil rich economy collapses, & the Russian people revolt against Putin & weaken him right out of the Kremlin.

NATO is rightfully prepared to defend the Ukraine region & Putin can either fire the 1st shot or face the consequences of his intimidation & agression.
Either way, he rattled the sabre 1st, teased, threatened & has built his troops for a war he called for by his own agression.

No US citizen should be talking down NATO for doing what it commands itself to do against Authoritarian agression around the world.

Calls of Anti-War Kumbaya is up to Vlad to answer to.
It's his game.

War is about Greed, Profit, & the Threat to indefensable nations against Authoritarian aggression, regardless of the cost & destruction necessary to satisfy that Greed & Profit.

betsuni

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6. "In the real world, if the plane is built ... and if the choice is if that goes to Vermont,

Reply to sheshe2 (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 10, 2022, 01:35 AM

Feb 2022

South Carolina or Florida ... what is your choice as a United States Senator? Do you want it to go to South Carolina? My view is that given the reality of the damn plane, I'd rather it come to Vermont than to South Carolina. And that's what the Vermont National Guard wants, and that means hundreds of jobs in my city. That's it."

What representatives and senators do, try to provide jobs for their constituents. Military and corporations included. Yet nobody accuses Sanders of being beholden to the MIC. Why are Democrats accused of being "corporate Dems" beholden to Big Whatever/wealthy donors for trying to provide jobs for their constituents? Where is the evidence? Why the double standard?