disaster industrial complex
n.— «But the worst damage is what is being done now, this confluence of forces barraging New Orleans and its Diaspora, what some local organizers have referred to as the Disaster Industrial Complex. This is the perfect storm created by an orgy of greed and opportunism engaged in by the jackals of disaster profiteering.» —“Disasters; Hurricanes FEMA and Povertina Devastated New Orleans” by Jordan Flaherty OpEdNews.com Sept. 16, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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