Pols supporting DoD hardware programs whine “JOBS”, as if DoD’s primary function is as a make-work program. (a particular Senator, who has a very whiny way of speaking anyway, was whining 'JOBS" so loudly, when a Navy contract with Bath Iron Works was up for the chop, that, I hear her voice constantly, whenever anyone uses “jobs” as the excuse for government spending and bailout programs.
To keep more contractors afloat, would require even more wasteful spending.
In “1984” defense production, for the forever war, was, explicitly, a make work program, to keep the mob employed, and docile.
Steve