@Big Al unless under duress from giggling granddaughters who insist on eating mall food or checking out 21 Forever. But then again I freaking hate the suburbs and exburbs. So as I've already in practice boycotted malls I can't shun defense workers. Silly me I moved to a formerly funky weird city that is now hell bent on turning itself into one giant dense suburb with malls galore.

As we're a statistical, number crunching contractor, btob, (free lancer?), we get the work we can. No defense work so far, but then again that's a 'market' that doesn't advertise or have use for consumer research surveys. However we do take on work for some dozzies as far as the immoral, global giant vampire squid goes.

My dad was a mechanical engineer who started out at Lockheed,then Boing and worked practically every company on Al's list. He did aeronautics specializing in landing gears for airplanes.Defense work however was his bread and butter. He liked it as 'this is where the action is' he said. He got other job offers in industries that did not make weapons but preferred the high income he got for designing the gears of napalm release devices that we're put in the jungles of Viet Nam. They were triggered by the heat of humans and animals. Me and my brother when we figured out what it was he did, did shun him.

Hey maybe if more people stopped thinking weaponry or killing people was a acceptable way to make a living this country would not be the menace to life on earth as it is. I'm not being judgemental to the workers but maybe workers need to take a good look at what they are being paid to do and help humans everywhere get rid of the 'government' as the major employer.

We can all say this is the way our economy works and I need to feed my family but we can stop thinking that just because it generates work in this fucked up economy and is what the government has told us is the only 'way forward' makes it okay. We all need to stop looking at killing as viable way to make a living. Krupp a weapon maker was forced to start making good coffee makers after WW11. They only way this will change is if people stand up in solidarity and refuse to accept this madness as the way it is.

One of the first things that opened my eyes to just how bad Obama was, was when he bailed out GMC to enable them to crank out even bigger honking SUV earth destroyers. The government could have at that point bailed them out with the stipulation that they designed and produced affordable electric cars. Bejeezuz even the Nazis managed to design and crank out Volkswagon's that ordinary people could afford. The disaster capitalistic economy were living under on steroids, thrives on killing be it other humans critters or the planet. Enough is enough. None of this 'technology' is progress regardless of how inevitable or patriotic they tell you it is for 'security'. This is a culture of death and it needs to go.

They say you better listen to the voice of reason
But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason
So you had better do as you are told
You better listen to the radio

I wanna bite the hand that feeds me
I wanna bite that hand so badly
I want to make them wish they'd never seen me

Some of my friends sit around every evening
And they worry about the times ahead
But everybody else is overwhelmed by indifference
And the promise of an early bed
You either shut up or get cut up, they don't wanna hear about it

#1.2 that's why I suggested not talking to them at the mall instead of making them wear orange wigs to look like Trump.