northrop grumman lockheed martin, indebted therapeutics corp. -- -- united therapeutics corp-- we aree hundreds of millions. >> the average salary it was about $25 million last year. it was up 65% to the -- compared to the year before. >> you are looking at stock options and awards. what is your take during the year when so many people are just barely coming out of this recovery? >> i am a capitalist through and through. i am the publisher of "washington business journal." i think it is troubling that we have this growing disparity between the very, very highly- paid people, and the rest of the workforce. >> josh boak, do you think it will carry into the election year? >> this is something that is on thmiddle class that are not protesting. median incomes are down by 10%. we have two different economies. for the vast majorityf americans, to some degree, they are in a recession. >> peter morici you save the obama administration is too opmistic. >> last august, the president told us the deficit would be less than $1 trillion. now what will be closer to $1.30 trillion or $1.40 trillion. s

day it really does all come down to money and it's clear that defense contractors like northrop grumman lockheed martin and others who are all part of this association for unmanned vehicle systems seems like they know how to keep washington in their pockets i mean while i guess that you should just start keeping an eye on the skies because this bill means that somebody is going to be keeping an eye on you for a price. now according to data from the department of veterans affairs ten thousand combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder flooded into v.a. hospitals every three months in two thousand and eleven overall that pushed the number of patients afflicted through above two hundred thousand and that data came out at the end of november that was before the last troops left iraq was before we see tens of thousands of u.s. troops begin to return from afghanistan this year and the next so it's an issue that isn't going away anytime soon and it's one of the troops and their families and doctors and employers are all struggling with this is the kind of wound that has no physical scars but are some

northrop grumman and lockheed martin so it appears that being part of the surveillance state makes you very wealthy well if i were living in looting virginia and i were looting people for a living whether it's at the airport through the homeland security or the t.s.a. or whether it's. down there on capitol hill where they put together all because of bills to wholesale from people you know i have an above average standard of living in that one mile radius of washington d.c. and this is where all the one percent is now this is all relatively new because it wasn't until nine eleven the most overrated attack in history did you find that the u.s. government needed to create seventeen or eighteen new agencies pay them billions and you know they made jamie diamond look like. restraint of litter in fact luden county now it's not looting but it sounds better as looting it was an agricultural county up until only the one nine hundred sixty s. so yes it has you see the emergence of the new the one percent they are there they're the ones that are basically the toll booth operators between you the

drone that is ubiquitous in the war in terror in afghanistan is made by general comics lockheed martin northrop grumman they make drones and there are lots of other specialty industries proxy aviation is another one that makes the military drones all these companies came together and formed a trade association a couple years ago called the situation for unmanned aerial vehicles and they've become a real force on capitol hill and we did a story showing double lobbying dollars in the last year two years ago that formed a congressional caucus with democrat and to quell or and republican congressman buck mckeon and they're basically pushing the drone agenda capitol hill but mccain of course is the chairman of the armed services and you know and they've developed a very rigorous and massive really lobbying strategy to get the f.a.a. bill and related last asked. to look just at their lodging strategy it's pretty dramatic i mean we came to our point. oh ok they are up you know to go to you ten this power point yes this this power point basically shows that over the past year it developed a pretty sophisticate