President Eisenhower, WWII general and Republican, tried to warn everyone in his farewell address way back in 1961, so the situation seems fairly hopeless, groar.
It seems that even if Barack Hussein Obama (you'll be hearing more about that middle name soon) is for real, he'll never get elected. It's not even likely that John Edwards will get a nomination. No, most likely we'll get Giuliani, Thompson or Hillary Clinton as our next president. In short, business as usual.
And don't forget the Carlyle Group and Raytheon and many others along with Haliburton.
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The Boston-based watchdog group
United for a Fair Economy, known in general for its reports on the vast pay gap between CEOs and workers, published a report in 2003 on the even more insane gap between soldiers and weapons CEOs. Using federal, corporate, and think tank data, the group found that while the average army private in Iraq earns about $20,000 a year, the average CEO among the 37 largest publicly traded defense contractors made 577 times more money in 2002, $11.3 million. Since 2000, the 37 defense contractor CEOs (actually, given our first-strike war, it is more appropriate to refer to them as offense contractors) have taken home $1.35 billion. That may not be Bill Gates, but it still means that just 37 men have made enough money in the last three years to, for instance, pay for two years of running the Boston public schools. Meanwhile, everyone knows how the budget cuts have turned public school systems into their own little Baghdads because our governments say there is no more money after war, tax cuts, corporate giveaways, and sports stadiums.