Congressmen Derive Financial Profit From War

http://www.infowars.com/?p=2417
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ralph_fo_080527_151_congressmen_deri.htm

Who profits from the Iraq war? More than a quarter of senators and congressmen have invested at least $196 million of their own money in companies doing business with the Department of Defense (DoD) that profit from the death and destruction in Iraq.
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 War hawk Sen. Joe Lieberman (IConn.), chairman of the defense-related
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had at least $51,000 invested in these companies in 2006.

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), who voted for Bush’s war, had stock in defense companies, such as Honeywell, Boeing and Raytheon, but sold the stock in May 2007.

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Rich people pay more tax than poor people.
Most of the nation's disposable income is in the possesion of lower and middle classes.
If there's a problem here it's the lower and middle classes whom are not observing current events and potential insider traders (politicians) closely enough and matching their investment strategies. My father starting putting money into defense contractors starting in December 2002 in response to the vast NATO army doing "exercises" in Saudi Arabia and he could be described as middle-upper class. I was 16 at the time so I just had savings, I did however take note of the low interest rates that occured for a long period of time and predicted high-risk mortgage lenders would be at risk sometime last year, but I spread my short selling into other high-risk lenders who weren't as badly effected so I didn't make that much money. I for one am glad to have evacuated money from those failing companies and put it to use in purchasing luxuries and in other investments, I have done a charitable service, it's the equivalent of donating $5000 to oxfam or something.

I think the problem is you guys just do not understand the service sector! I'm suprised none of you contemplate the idea of "intellectual labour" or whatever you might call the work done by managers to increase the efficiency of resource allocation.