War Profiteering

War Profiteers in WWI

Company Name Profits BEFORE the War Profits by The End Of The War

DuPont (Gunpowder) $ 6,000,000 $ 58.000,000 Bethlehem Steel $ 6,000,000 $ 49,000,000 United States Steel $ 105,000,000 $ 240,000,000 Anaconda $ 10,000,000 $ 34,000,000 Utah Copper $ 5,000,000 $ 21,000,000 Central Leather Company $ 3,500,000 $ 15,000,000 International Nickel Company $ 4,000,000 $ 73,000,000 American Sugar Refining Company $ 2,000,000 $ 6,000,000 According to General Butler – 21,000 Millionaires were made in the USA during WWI.
$ 16, 000,000,000 (Yep, BILLIONS) of Profits were made off of WWI in America – off of the BLOOD of it’s Citizens . . .

And It seems to have ALWAYS been this way :

“There is such a thirst for gain [among military suppliers]…that it is enough to make one curse their own Species, for possessing so little virtue and patriotism.” – President George Washington, 1778

“War Profiteering is TREASON.” – Senator Harry S. Truman – (the EXACT Quote is in doubt – but, there is little doubt that Truman BELIEVED this)
(http://www.resistanceisnotfutile.us/WarProfiteeringInWWI.aspx).

War profiteering should be considered a crime, but it can’t be enforced if the very country trying to enforce it, continually uses it to keep from sinking economically. As it did during every war all the way up to the one it is currently in, the United States continues to keep itself afloat by profiteering on the war on terrorism. As it has been seen with Haliburton. In fact, here is a quote from Haliburton’s CEO, David Lesar:

“Will things go wrong? Sure they willl, it’s a war zone. But when they do, we’ll fix it, we always have — for 60 years, for both political parties.” (http://iraqforsale.org/halliburton.php).

Enough said, so long as there is a profit to gain, the United States will be there to gain it.