Ted Turner asks Carl Sagan if he's a socialist:

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10. "Phooey!" said the contractor caste and their toadies. "Who needs schools!"

I know of an Alabama redneck (Republican, of course) who had a grimy little factory making plastic doo-dads - until he landed a defense contract shortly after Bush invaded Afghanistan.

He died a few years ago, leaving his wife an oceanfront mansion - which she then sold for $15 million.

And this is just a modest example from that gravy train.