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http://warcosts.com/1percentWar 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.•Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush made $22.84 million last year.•Lockheed Martin CEO Robert Stevens made $21.89 million.•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.Help us fight their propaganda campaign to protect their profits. Use our list to share this video with your local Occupy group and encourage them to show it at their events:
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bobknight33How stupid. The issue is not with Lockheed, Boeing etc. presidents making shitloads of money. As the video fails to point out its the lobbing that gets billions and billions of taxpayers ( well borrowed Chinese) money.
You issue is the Government. Your elected officials vote for this. Stop voting in crooked officials and this shit will stop.
cosmovitellisays...>> ^bobknight33:
You issue is the Government. Your elected officials vote for this. Stop voting in crooked officials and this shit will stop.
Impossible under the current system. That's like telling Italy to just get rid of the Mafia.
Anyone who doesn't play it their way will be assimilated by the application of large (for normal people) bribes, and/or smeared and ruined through the right wing press.. or killed.
These are people who have ACTIVELY campaigned against global warming awareness and financial regulation, who tricked the US govenment into handing them $800bn last time they fucked up, who make money off dead brown babies ('we don't count bodies - especially childrens bodies').. and so much more.
You are dealing with the same sort of men who under different circumstances become dictators and torturers. You want to take their money and power off them? Good luck.
The USA was created because of the impossibility of reform under the entrenched European mafia families (i.e royalty and aristocracy).
Imagine if the US got to the point where some overpriveliged simpleton became ruler just because his daddy was before him, and realligned the countrys military and economic clout to serve only the aristocratic elite of newly minted barons and earls?
It may be time to find a new bit of land somewhere..
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bobknight33So you basically agree it the government that the true problem but you instead choose to attack other such as in the video.
Smart, very Smart.
>> ^cosmovitelli:
>> ^bobknight33:
You issue is the Government. Your elected officials vote for this. Stop voting in crooked officials and this shit will stop.
Impossible under the current system. That's like telling Italy to just get rid of the Mafia.
Anyone who doesn't play it their way will be assimilated by the application of large (for normal people) bribes, and/or smeared and ruined through the right wing press.. or killed.
These are people who have ACTIVELY campaigned against global warming awareness and financial regulation, who tricked the US govenment into handing them $800bn last time they fucked up, who make money off dead brown babies ('we don't count bodies - especially childrens bodies').. and so much more.
You are dealing with the same sort of men who under different circumstances become dictators and torturers. You want to take their money and power off them? Good luck.
The USA was created because of the impossibility of reform under the entrenched European mafia families (i.e royalty and aristocracy).
Imagine if the US got to the point where some overpriveliged simpleton became ruler just because his daddy was before him, and realligned the countrys military and economic clout to serve only the aristocratic elite of newly minted barons and earls?
It may be time to find a new bit of land somewhere..
gharkBut how will war profiteers make a living if the wars stop, it doesn't seem fair that they should have to lose their jobs just because people don't want brown babies to die.
Trancecoachwhen the entire economy is distorted to support arms manufacturing in order to gild the exorbitant profits among the war mongers, there is no more rational solution than to become irrational, occupy, and take back what is rightfully ours.
Trancecoachwhy am I not surprised?
cosmovitellisays...I'm agreeing with your diagnosis but not your prescription.
Figuring out how to keep the sort of people who crave political power from lying to and stealing from those who elected them for their own gain in personal power (in capitalism read: money) is a problem that every society has struggled with and many countries were created to run away from.
The right wing will always be there, half smart but small minded, selling off and destroying everything of true value for short term personal gain. This is why every civilisation has collapsed into disaster sooner or later.
The trick is to avoid the impending repeat performance. Which means actually how the fuck do you manage it?
>> ^bobknight33:
So you basically agree it the government that the true problem but you instead choose to attack other such as in the video.
Smart, very Smart.
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