Foreign policy and war profiteering (extremely revealing) - mainemike52
Last week we uncovered how many billions of dollars the wars in Iraq,
Afghanistan, and Pakistan are costing the American taxpayers. We all
know that war costs a lot of money. What we don't know is that the same
people who profit off the wars we create have a direct influence in
shaping the foreign policy that keeps America at war while putting
millions of dollars in their own pockets.
Here is the way our
government system is supposed to work: foreign policy is supposed to be
drafted between the President and Congress, and the Secretary of State.
In the present administration, this is Hillary Clinton. She is supposed
to serve as the President's main foreign policy advisor. What is foreign
policy? Foreign policy is a set of goals outlining how a country will
interact with other countries economically, politically, socially and
militarily. These days, many of our elected representatives have become
merely the messengers of foreign policy prescriptions that were created
by councils and think tanks comprised of CEOs and executives from the
biggest corporations in the world. On these councils sit executives from
every major industry from food to media and, most shockingly, national
defense.
Is if there is a conflict of interest when CEOs of the
largest defense corporations are advising our lawmakers on foreign
policy? Before you decide ask yourself this: if you were the CEO of
Lockheed Martin, the largest defense corporation in America, and 95% of
your company's $35 billion dollar annual profit came directly from
government contracts that employ you to supply war materials, would you
want the war to end? Especially if you personally enjoyed a $21 million
increase in compensation from 2005 to 2008 as a result of the War on
Terror? Between 2001 and 2005, defense corporations' annual profits
climbed 189%, and the CEOs of these corporations that benefited the most
from this profit increase sit on councils together with our politicians
to "recommend," "suggest" and "prescribe" foreign policy.
source: Media Roots brasscheck tv
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