Which Candidates are hooked in with the Military Industrial Complex? we know for sure Ron paul isn't.

There are now shadows looming on all the moves within the United States. Daniel Guérin, in his 1936 book Fascism and Big Business, wrote about the fascist government support to heavy industry. It can be defined as, “an informal and changing coalition of groups with vested psychological, moral, and material interests in the continuous development and maintenance of high levels of weaponry, in preservation of colonial markets and in military-strategic conceptions of internal affairs

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President of the United States (and former General of the Army) Dwight D. Eisenhower used the term in his Farewell Address to the Nation on January 17, 1961: A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction... This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.

2008 rank	2007 rank	Company (country)	2008 arms sales (US$ m.)	2007 arms sales (US$ m.)	Arms sales as share of company’s total sales (%), 2008
1	2	BAE Systems	32 420	29 860	95
2	3	Lockheed Martin	29 880	29 400	70
3	1	Boeing	29 200	30 480	48
4	4	Northrop Grumman	26 090	24 600	77
5	5	General Dynamics	22 780	21 520	78
6	6	Raytheon	21 030	19 540	91
7	7	EADS	17 900	13 100	28
8	9	Finmeccanica	13 020	9 850	52
9	8	L-3 Communications	12 160	11 240	82
10	10	Thales Group	10 760	9 350	58
11	11	United Technologies	9 980	8 760	17
12	12	SAIC	7 350	6 250	73
13	16	KBR	5 730	5 000	50
14	13	Computer Sciences Corp.	5 710	5 420	34
15	15	Honeywell	5 310	5 020	15
16	19	ITT Corporation	5 170	3 850	44
17	17	Rolls Royce	4 720	4 580	28
18	23	Almaz-Antei	4 340	2 780	94
19	25	AM General	4 040	2 670	. .
20	N	Navistar	3 900	370	26

For the 2010 fiscal year, the president's base budget of the Department of Defense rose to $533.8 billion. Adding spending on "overseas contingency operations" brings the sum to $663.8 billion.

When the budget was signed into law on October 28, 2009, the final size of the Department of Defense's budget was $680 billion, $16 billion more than President Obama had requested.^[An additional $33 billion supplemental bill to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was expected to pass in the spring of 2010, but has been delayed by the House of Representatives after passing the Senate.Defense-related expenditures outside of the Department of Defense constitute between $216 billion and $361 billion in additional spending, bringing the total for defense spending to between $880 billion and $1.03 trillion in fiscal year 2010