Boondoggle 401

Advanced Boondoggle.

When it came to the C-130, the process worked like a dream. “By following this strategy from year to year,” writes a team of scholars of lobbying, “Lockheed has been able to turn what was to be the C-130's doom in the 1970s into a regularly funded military spending program, all without a single request having been sent by the administration to Congress.” Lockheed was so successful on Capitol Hill that its work even garnered a name in honor of the 50 planes bought for every one requested: "C-130 math."

Prerequisites:  Introduction, Beginning, and Intermediate Boondoggle; Marketing in Washington, DC; Congress, Nuts and Bolts 101 and 201; Arachnid Psychology 201

(TomDispatch.com, via AlterNet)

Someone's kids will go hungry to pay for these.