Meet the 0.01 Percent: War Profiteers

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War industry CEOs make tens of millions of dollars a year, putting them in the top 0.01 percent of income earners in the U.S.

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Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush made $22.84 million last year.
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Lockheed Martin CEO Robert Stevens made $21.89 million.
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Boeing CEO James McNerney: $19.4 million.

These guys use their corporations' massive lobbying dollars to keep their job-killing gravy train rolling. Last year, their companies spent a whopping $46 million on lobbying, corrupting our politics and ensuring that their bank accounts continue to fatten at our expense. These executives are some of the main reasons why we're wasting so much on war instead of rebuilding our own nation here at home.
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CORRECTION: Lockheed Martin's CEO is Robert Stevens. The video refers to him as "Martin Stevens" which is incorrect.

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[drdejanm]

Stop Whispering Start Shouting!

[freecomptechreview]

we should occupy the headquarters of the war profiteers companies.

[califradmt]

@canonflip Israel is one of the largest arms manufacturers/dealers in the world. Is that a fact? Banks, war machines, religious piety. That is what Israel looks like.

[raiden409]

REMEMBER THEM FACES

[theplumbingwholesale]

Ron Paul for president. The mainstream GOP and the mainstream media is against this. He is the only one willing to give "we the people" back our nation that runaway government has claimed and sold us down the river. Ron Paul 2012!!!

[GanjaKahn42O]

FUCK TONY STARK!!

[censored6x]

@canonflip

That is a pretty petty criticism! It totally misses the message. Do you have a problem seeing the forest for the trees? Well then, your comment is invalid because you have run-on sentences. Sloppy, sloppy!! Is your lack of literacy preventing you from finding/maintaining employment?

If you are going to criticize such a petty detail, then do not make such slipshod mistakes yourself.

[thenakedemperor]

"Markets like totalitarianism." -- Larry Fink, Blackrock

[tinman530]

Wanna get rid of these ass hats?. The first two steps are... #(1}. Abolish of the federal reserve and go back to a gold standard. #(2). Campaigner reform!... Issue a taxpayer funded "equal time/ system for candidates. Since when is a corporation a US citizen? The supremes are supreme Idiots