Profit above all else
I have a grandson who is a cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy. I am extremely proud of him and love him very much. That doesn't mean that that pride and love must extend to his Washington bosses. It doesn't! The principal argument here is not about whether or not we should have missiles or planes or tanks, etc. The real question is our morality, our compassion for those who are suffering, or lack thereof. When Pamela and I visit family in the east we live about ten miles north of Fort Campbell. Often I can hear the Howitzers firing. Each boom that I hear costs the American taxpayer from $10,000 to $150,000. Now you can have quite an argument about the costs, etc., of such ordinance. You can see how capitalists are getting filthy rich charging exhorbitant prices. When I was in the Army the joke was about the $500 hammers. We got paid $102 a month. The capitalist got more than that for every mortar we fired, and, yes, the...

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