Follow the $1 Trillion Spent on Wars and You Will Get a Lot of Answers ...

[Blackhatjack]

The military industrial complex has been reaping undreamed of profits from these wars, as have the military support contractors.

These revenue streams have been protected to the detriment of our soldiers in uniform.

Nothing will change until we cut off the flow of dollars to them.

[Catherina]

1. With BP being one of the big military support contractors. Rec'd n/t

[teacher gal]

2. K & R n/t

[jwirr]

3. Seems the military/industrial establishment went a bit too far this time. nt

[CrispyQ]

4. I read an article several months ago -

wish I'd bookmarked it. The basic message was that the elite are using wars to siphon off the treasury & how much less it would cost us, in actual dollars & suffering, if we just gave that money to them outright. My first thought at reading the opening paragraph was, "Pfft!" but by the end of the article, the author had me convinced.

BTW, I read something a few days ago that insinuated that if a soldier comes home & is in need of medical care, but the military finds out that that solider is gay, they cut off their VA benefits. I want badly to believe that this isn't so, but it sounds exactly like what our govt/military would do. :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

It stuns me that anyone, even teabaggers, can look at the way this country treats it's people & claim that we are a Christian nation.

[Blackhatjack]

5. IT was reported recently that returning injured soldiers are being billed for missing equipment

And you know that the 'missing equipment' did not just disappear.

But they have to bill our soldiers hundreds of dollars after they were injured and shipped back home.

Shameful.

[leftstreet]

6. K&R