Patriots or Profiteers?

http://warcosts.com This week, the top military contractor companies announced their first-quarter profits for 2012. Their profits continue to grow while they push Washington, D.C. to protect their budgets at the expense of the rest of us, and while they break the law for financial gain. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and FDR wouldn't tolerate this kind of outrage. They knew that patriots don't behave this way, but profiteers do.

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[Heather Bryse-Harvey]

Outsourcing government responsibility on the pretext of 'saving money' is bull**it! Instead of making sure that the non-profit government does it's job properly they are now bringing in a 'for-profit' middleman. By the time they realize/admit that it is becoming considerably more expensive than the original system, the original system will have been destroyed, so 'going back' will no longer be an option and we'll be saddled with a profiteering business matrix.

It's just plain wrong!

[v1de0gamr]

In a country that seems to reward bloodthirsty aggression whilst punishing passivity, I still choose peace.

[pumancat]

What about the REAL profiteers? The oil and gas corporations? The Bankster Federal Reserve and the IMF? and the Governments that serve them?

[ClassActionHero]

believe it or not the D and R on your ballot are not the only options. When you look at your ballot in november you will see several names.

I recommend voting for one that isn't Romney or Obama.

[djrinpoche]

All of that being true Obama's a more honorable man than Ron.

[Bob Soper]

If voting really changed anything, they'd outlaw it.

Occupy 2012!

[Brian Smith]

and when Ron Paul isn't a nominee, then what, don't vote?

[RevoltBeginsNow]

Let's not forget these "innocent men and women" put on a uniform and grabbed a gun to kill. That they be pawned off and exterminated in a larger agenda is consistent with the choice they made. It's called cosmological justice. Yours is on the way.

[D1lk]

The American system of capitalism which now rules the world can survive only by permanent war. The Empire seeks new enemies. The Empire must consume new victims.

Can this be the highest form of human evolution? Or are we witnessing a terrible human degradation?

[merryprank]

I'd be careful speaking how you feel about the the third arm of Wall St. The military is ever vigilant protecting it's interests and the rights of shareholders to earn a decent retirement.