Henry Waxman: Shocking Wasteful Spending On Weapons Systems

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June 14, 2008



The Pentagon spends hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons systems, but our troops still aren't getting what they need. It's a scandal of enormous proportions that involves deceptive corporations and complacent government officials. But the biggest problem of all is that the people in Washington who could fix it continue to ignore it.


VIDEO:
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1. You think all that spending is supposed to be for protecting the troops? HAH!

Military spending is for making military contractors rich, not for protecting the troops, silly!

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2. If and when

the corporate and Pentagon criminals have succeeded in stealing the nation blind and bankrupt, they hope there will be nothing and no one left but aristocrats like them and peasants like us. That is their long term goal, a return to imperial supremacy based on race, caste and class.