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Thirty-one men and women who once held seats on the Armed Services Committees or served as their senior staff have left public office to become lobbyists and contractors for the very weapons makers whose budgets they once wrote. This migration is no accident of career timing; it is the calculated exchange of legislative power for private gain, executed by the Managerial Priesthood that now staffs both ends of the corridor between Capitol Hill and the defense boardrooms.
The pattern repeats with mechanical regularity: legislators craft the National Defense Authorization Act, then step into roles where they advise the same firms on how to extract larger sums from the same legislation. The defense budget climbs not because threats multiply in exact proportion, but because the men who authorize the funds later profit from their authorization.
Western Christendom once bound its rulers by oaths of fealty to the commonweal and the laws of God rather than to private ledgers. The modern arrangement severs that bond and replaces it with an open market in influence, a practice the undivided Church condemned under the name of simony when it appeared in ecclesiastical offices.
Scripture records the warning that the love of money is the root of many evils; the present spectacle demonstrates how that root grows through the institutions charged with national defense. The City of Man rewards those who convert public trust into private revenue while the City of God demands that authority serve the household and the realm, not the coffers of distant shareholders.
The Dispossessor works through this door, stripping the nation of both treasure and the capacity for independent judgment. Each transition normalizes the belief that service to the commonwealth is merely a stepping stone to personal enrichment.
The faithful remnant must therefore treat every such appointment as evidence of institutional corruption rather than individual success. They must refuse to grant moral legitimacy to the system that rewards the transfer of public power into private hands.
Restoration begins when households and congregations withdraw consent from leaders who pass through that door and instead raise up men bound by covenant to place and people rather than to profit. Only then does the defense of the nation cease to serve as a mechanism for the enrichment of its overseers.
