I think you might dig a little deeper.

Given the federal debt started growing with the New Deal, not only was Roosevelt putting unemployed labor back to work, but unemployed capital, as well.

While we assume money to be some commodity to mine from society, the reality is it's a contract and the asset is backed by the debt.

The elephant in the room is the capital markets could not function, without the government borrowing up trillions in effectively surplus investment.

So the military industrial complex is really just the trophy wife of the banks.

Government, as executive and regulatory function, is analogous to the central nervous system of society, while money and banking are analogous to blood and the circulation system.

With our current system, of public government and private banking, politicians have to sell their souls to the banks, in order to be elected, because they can't operate on sufficiently long enough time frames.

We don't need to go back to private government, aka, monarchy, but recognize banking is as much a public utility as roads.