I appreciate and respect your perspective. Also, I am not advocating for limiting competition. I am just saying I can see how and why it might have happened.
I understand the fear of a hostile takeover, but there has to be others.
This is a good convo. When I look back at The Last Supper, I think there is some rationality in the fact the Cold War was over and that defense spending would go down, but I think you and I can both agree, we should let the companies work it out organically if it comes to rational consolidation, rather than the Government actually encouraging it.
Regardless, even if it may have been understandable back then, it obviously backfired, very badly. So the issue now I think is that people have to first understand that there is a grave problem, which I don't think many do. Secondly, I think we need to fix it, and make known that the Defense Budget is not, in fact, a cash cow or a coffer pot for industry to take advantage of.
