CHICAGO -- "I had always wondered when I was a kid if there was some way I could get everyone in the country to give me a dollar," said Boeing Engineer Paul Named.
    Later in life, as a Boeing Engineer, Named was able to get every tax paying citizen of the US to pay Boeing, Lockheed Martin and a host of other defense contractors more than $500 each.
    "As is turns out," explained Named, "All you have to do is donate a few million to the presidential campaign of some greedy shill."
    The $105 billion, a figure announced long before there was any coherent plan on what it they would actually be buying, was to be handed out to the massive firms on the condition that they use most of it to research a system that might some day be adapted to become what could be at least called a "missile defense system." "Whatever that is," said Named.