America's Homeless Industrial Complex

In his final speech from the White House in January 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the nation that the military had joined with the arms industry and had acquired unwarranted influence over American politics. His term for this alliance was the “military industrial complex.”

Since that time, Eisenhower's term has been co-opted by other critics of special interests pooling their resources to exercise a dangerous influence on America's democracy; one example would be the so-called “homeless industrial complex.”