How much did the military spend yesterday? $384 million

Yesterday's big winner was HEBCO out of Oklahoma City with an $80 million Air Force contract for A-10 technical order sustainment. Also worth noting was the $48 million contract awarded to C&C Produce out of Kansas City, Missouri for supplying fruits and vegetables for the next three years for personnel in the Army, Air Force, and the Department of Agriculture schools and reservations.

This information is provided to highlight just how much taxpayer money is spent, per day, to enrich companies participating in the military industrial complex. The idea that our economy requires a governmental redistribution of wealth from individual taxpayers to large corporations that are friendly and well-connected to government came from the Keynesian argument for demand “stimulus” -- that our economy's health depends on higher and higher levels of spending. For this reason, personal saving is discouraged and often penalized by the government. But because individuals still tend to follow personal incentives to save, the Keynesian argument remains in effect: that government should spend money the public is reluctant to spend through tax-and-spend policies.

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Below are the contracts awarded by the Defense Department
August 2, 2019
totaling $384,823,065

Recent record daily spending: $10 billion on May 8, 2019

Air Force - $199,537,359

HEBCO (Oklahoma City, OK) $80,000,000
Boeing (Seattle, WA) $55,500,000
Rockwell Collins Simulation & Training Solutions (Cedar Rapids, IA) $40,219,702
Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems (McKinney, TX) $23,817,657

Army - $88,351,782

NTVI Enterprises (Falls Church, VA), Global Engineering & Construction (Renton, WA), KJS Support Services (Ft. Worth, TX), Royce Construction Services (Reston, VA) $45,000,000
American Ordnance (Middletown, IA) $43,351,782

Defense Logistics Agency - $48,000,000

C&C Produce (N. Kansas City, MO) $48,000,000

Defense Information Systems Agency - $40,028,089

HGSNet (Vienna, VA) $21,932,725
Kapili Services (Orlando, FL) $18,095,364

Navy - $8,905,835

Boeing (St. Louis, MO) $8,905,835