The trick is: who better to run a military contractor than former military men? Who better to run a food company than someone who has worked in the USDA?
These are natural career paths for those individuals that make perfect, natural sense and --in and of themselves-- aren't a real issue.
The real issue is that our government can too easily reward individual companies or industry groups with hand-outs.
If a single general couldn't essentially hand a contract to a supplier on his say-so, that supplier gains nothing by bribing them with a future board position.
What we really need, is for it to be more difficult for individuals to drive contract selection and for the standards for passing a bailout, tariff or corporate welfare program to be much higher.
Perhaps by requiring such legislation to be stand-alone bills, and requiring an oversight office to evaluate contract selection.
