Originally Posted by ilnjscb

where your tax dollars are going:

In Washington DC on New Year?s Eve: Wine meets wealth

"Washington [DC] boasts some of the country?s richest neighborhoods and most affluent households, many of which thrived during the economic downturn. That recession-resistant prosperity has made Calvert Woodley the kind of place where $43.99 bottles of Veuve Cliquot?s signature ?Yellow Label? champagne fly out the door (?even if they don?t know how to pronounce it!? Almodovar said) ? and where one customer rejected a $799 bottle of 2005 Chateau Mouton Rothschild on Thursday because he preferred a much more expensive (but unavailable) 2005 Chateau Lafite."

Ah, defense contractors and their boundless wealth, all wrung from the pockets of the middle class, with no-compete contracts to produce weapons and programs that are never used or don't function, procured for them by lobbyists.