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That would make probably almost all businesses in the US federally funded, as the US government is the single largest employer of people, and those people spend their money at private businesses. The US government purchases things from private businesses.

Come on.




Yeah? Lockheed Martin could be reasonably described as "federally funded".


Sure, but then what's the point of bringing it up at all?


Because that's what the thread is about? If twitter marked lockheed as "government funded organization" I would not care




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