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:*[[Rep. Pat Harrigan]]: For 20 years, a $6 knob that takes one hour to 3D print has been grounding [[Black Hawk helicopter]]s four times a month, and the contractor responsible won't sell us the part or the IP rights to fix it ourselves. So instead, American taxpayers have been paying $40,000 every single time to replace the entire system, multiplied by four times a month, for two decades. That is NOT a procurement problem, that is a shakedown, and it is exactly why right to repair has to be in this year's NDAA. [https://twitter.com/RepPatHarrigan/status/2055318212041171384]

:*[[Rep. Pat Harrigan]]: For 20 years, a $6 knob that takes one hour to 3D print has been grounding [[Black Hawk helicopter]]s four times a month, and the contractor responsible won't sell us the part or the IP rights to fix it ourselves. So instead, American taxpayers have been paying $40,000 every single time to replace the entire system, multiplied by four times a month, for two decades. That is NOT a procurement problem, that is a shakedown, and it is exactly why right to repair has to be in this year's NDAA. [https://twitter.com/RepPatHarrigan/status/2055318212041171384]

:*[[Scott Ritter]] goes off on [[military-industrial complex]] leeches. [https://youtu.be/ZXvUpuhAIBk?t=789]

:*[[Scott Ritter]] goes off on [[military-industrial complex]] leeches. [https://youtu.be/ZXvUpuhAIBk?t=789]

{{Cquote|You know, for all the people out there going, 'I hate [[communism]]'. We have the most communist system in the world where we take the [[taxpayer]]s money and we put it through the [[military]] and flow it back in. It's [[government]] funded economy. That's it. And it's not designed to produce [[weapon]]s for the [[war]] fighter. It's designed to enrich people. We are incapable of quick turnaround. Literally incapable. We have so many rules, regulations, etc. But there's also that's not the issue. You could work on, you know, on regulations. It's the way the system has worked. It's the design. It's the underlying sentiment. '''The defense industry doesn't exist to protect you. People should know that. [[Lockheed Martin]], [[Raytheon]], these aren't people that are pro-[[American]]. They like to fly the [[American flag]] and place it over everything and say, "We're here for you." They're not. They're here to rob you blind and give you the worst weapons possible. If you think the [[Patriot missile]]s is good, look at its performance. It sucks. None of our weapons work. None of our weapons work the way they're supposed to. They are overhyped. And then we send our [[men]] and [[women]] into harm's way and then where shit goes wrong and pilots get shot down and equipment breaks and people run out of [[ammunition]]. The system's broke, judge, and ''<u>there's no way you can spend your way out of this''</u>. The $1.5 Trillion, I promise you this, we will become weaker if we put that [[money]] into the system because none of that money will be used where it needs to be used.''' It will all go into the pockets of the defense industry.}}

{{Cquote|You know, for all the people out there going, 'I hate [[communism]]'. We have the most communist system in the world where we take the [[taxpayer]]s money and we put it through the [[military]] and flow it back in. It's a [[government]] funded economy. That's it. And it's not designed to produce [[weapon]]s for the [[war]] fighter. It's designed to enrich people. We are incapable of quick turnaround. Literally incapable. We have so many rules, regulations, etc. That's not the issue you could work on, you know, on regulations. It's the way the system has worked. It's the design. It's the underlying sentiment. '''The defense industry doesn't exist to protect you. People should know that. [[Lockheed Martin]], [[Raytheon]], these aren't people that are pro-[[American]]. They like to fly the [[American flag]] and place it over everything and say, "We're here for you." They're not. They're here to rob you blind and give you the worst weapons possible. If you think the [[Patriot missile]]s is good, look at its performance. It sucks. None of our weapons work. None of our weapons work the way they're supposed to. They are overhyped. And then we send our [[men]] and [[women]] into harm's way and then where shit goes wrong and pilots get shot down and equipment breaks and people run out of [[ammunition]]. The system's broke, judge, and ''<u>there's no way you can spend your way out of this''</u>. The $1.5 Trillion, I promise you this, we will become weaker if we put that [[money]] into the system because none of that money will be used where it needs to be used.''' It will all go into the pockets of the defense industry.}}

==Arms control==

==Arms control==