--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > Good. But your arguments tended to show support of the > administration. They're heavily pushing intervention > which makes me think they've been threatened if they > don't. We all know by now that there is a lot of > skulduggery that goes on behind the scenes.
Follow the money. One cruise missile costs $1,410,000. Every one fired would have to be replaced. The Pentagon showers industry with contracts despite consistent cost overruns, bad business practices that lead to canceled contracts (of which the companies have nevertheless kept $50 billion of in the last decade) and rampant contractor misconduct. Defense companies received $373 billion in contracts from U.S. taxpayers in 2011, a near-record total and over twice what all troops in the military got in 2011. Lockheed Martin alone has quadrupled its profits in the last decade of two American wars. Top defense industry CEO pay averages $21.5 million a year. The Pentagon has not been subject to an audit since a 1990 law required one of every government agency. Why? Because it would never pass.
