14-01-2014, 08:43 AM
And the US Military regularly buys $1000+ toilet seats [of plastic, not gold-plated!].....et al. These are NOT mistakes. They are built into the system....when it comes to expensive weapons systems or large amounts of ammunition and/or bombs/rockets/etc., padding the costs or cutting corners on the specifications [to the point that systems sometimes do NOT work] is par. Its big money for some! From all angles, the military and wars keep deep pockets DEEP! War is only hell for the soldiers and hapless civilians - its pure heaven for the politicians and those who profit from supplying war materials and services.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass