Response to "The Pentagon Invades Your Life"

In many of my high school politics classes, we had discussions on how and where we buy things, and how we should be more conscious of where we buy from. Popular clothing stores like The Gap (same company as Old Navy, Banana Republic and Piperline) have been known to employ child laborers and paying them little more than slave's wages. When we buy from these stores, we help fund a corporation whose ethics we may disagree with. For a while in high school, I did try to remain very aware of where I bought from, and if I knew a corporation treated its employees poorly, or had child laborers, I would try not to buy from that store. This becomes difficult, however, when corporations obviously do not advertise that they have child laborers or that they pay less than minimum wages. Although I would like to remain aware of which corporations are ethical and which ones are not, it is very difficult to actually do research and find out for every store I may want to go to. As bad as it is to say, in a case like this, ignorance is bliss.

Turse's article "The Pentagon Invades Your Life" looked at this same issue, not from the perspective of how the corporations are run, but which corporations are linked to the military and profiting from Department of Defense money. Especially in today's society and economy, where there are about three major corporations that collectively own every corporation, it would be difficult to find out which corporations are linked to the military, and even more difficult to try to avoid shopping at or funding these corporations. Remaining conscious of where your money is going and then where that money goes is difficult, but when I am given the information, like I was when I read "The Pentagon Invades Your Life", it is harder to ignore the fact that my money may be funding companies and businesses that I do not support.