{"id":2677,"date":"2015-08-14T12:05:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T16:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2021-10-05T15:52:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:52:16","slug":"lockheedmartinistoobig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/lockheedmartinistoobig\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Lockheed Martin too big to fail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pubPostType\">\n<p><span class=\"varPubAuthor\">by Leigh Munsil and Austin Wright<\/span>, <span class=\"varPubSource\"><em>Politico<\/em>,<\/span> <span class=\"varPubDate\">12 August 2015.<\/span><br \/>\n<a class=\"htmlLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/08\/is-lockheed-martin-too-big-too-fail-121203.html\" target=\"_newtab\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> \u27aa HTML<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>\u201cI have never known a congressperson who will oppose federal spending that provides many jobs in their district,\u201d said Chares Knight of the Project on Defense Alternatives, a Washington think tank focused on defense reform. \u201cWhat makes compelling political sense for the individual member of Congress often ends up in distorting federal spending priorities. As Lockheed Martin becomes even more dominant in the defense sector it becomes more likely that defense spending choices will be distorted by the particular business interest of this one giant corporation.\u201d<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Leigh Munsil and Austin Wright, Politico, 12 August 2015. \u27aa HTML \u201cI have never known a congressperson who will oppose federal spending that provides many jobs in their district,\u201d said Chares Knight of the Project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10167552604075290_133638503385018":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is Lockheed Martin too big to fail? 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