[bevekspldnw]

These are military assets, the Pentagon gets what it wants.

That’s why CHIPS was passed, the brass told Congress to get them some fancy new fabs, and like all requests the Pentagon makes, they got it.

Long term it doesn’t matter if these fabs are hugely profitable relative to other locales, we’ll find a way to keep them producing.

[osnium123]

As long as the US government can afford to run with trillion dollar deficits. Once the budget cuts take place and the defense budget gets cut by half, all bets are off.

[bevekspldnw]

To appropriate a quote “you’ll take my guns from my cold dead hands”.

There’s only one thing the agree on in DC: defense spending is the most important line item, and everything else is secondary.

Also, turns out when you have the ability to take virtually anything by force the concept of “deficits” is a bit fungible.