How can we get conservatives to put honor and humanity over $$$?

Question

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/49194/

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Answer 1

War Is A Racket
By Major General Smedley Butler
buy it and read it.
below please find a small part of Chapter Four:

CHAPTER FOUR

How To Smash This Racket!

WELL, it's a racket, all right.

A few profit -- and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.

The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labor before the nations manhood can be conscripted. One month before the Government can conscript the young men of the nation -- it must conscript capital and industry and labor. Let the officers and the directors and the high-powered executives of our armament factories and our munitions makers and our shipbuilders and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all the other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted -- to get $30 a month, the same wage as the lads in the trenches get.

Let the workers in these plants get the same wages -- all the workers, all presidents, all executives, all directors, all managers, all bankers -- yes, and all generals and all admirals and all officers and all politicians and all government office holders -- everyone in the nation be restricted to a total monthly income not to exceed that paid to the soldier in the trenches!

Let all these kings and tycoons and masters of business and all those workers in industry and all our senators and governors and majors pay half of their monthly $30 wage to their families and pay war risk insurance and buy Liberty Bonds.

Why shouldn't they?

They aren't running any risk of being killed or of having their bodies mangled or their minds shattered. They aren't sleeping in muddy trenches. They aren't hungry. The soldiers are!

Give capital and industry and labor thirty days to think it over and you will find, by that time, there will be no war. That will smash the war racket -- that and nothing else.

Maybe I am a little too optimistic. Capital still has some say. So capital won't permit the taking of the profit out of war until the people -- those who do the suffering and still pay the price -- make up their minds that those they elect to office shall do their bidding, and not that of the profiteers.

Another step necessary in this fight to smash the war racket is the limited plebiscite to determine whether a war should be declared. A plebiscite not of all the voters but merely of those who would be called upon to do the fighting and dying. There wouldn't be very much sense in having a 76-year-old president of a munitions factory or the flat-footed head of an international banking firm or the cross-eyed manager of a uniform manufacturing plant -- all of whom see visions of tremendous profits in the event of war -- voting on whether the nation should go to war or not. They never would be called upon to shoulder arms -- to sleep in a trench and to be shot. Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war

Answer 2

Dude, all politics puts money first, if you think any party is better about that than the other, you are living in a dreamworld. The same corporations that give millions of dollars to Republican political campaigns give millions of dollars to Democratic political campaigns. There are special interests donating all sorts of money so they can pull some strings on both sides of the aisle. One reason that people were so unhappy with the Republican Congress a few years back was all of the pork they were giving to their districts and special interests when crises such as the Iraq war and Katrina were going on. Now that the Democrats have taken over in Congress do you think the pork has stopped? Not at all, it is just as much as ever.

Both parties are guilty of putting $$$$ ahead of everything.

Answer 3

How can we get the liberal morons to stop taxing us to
death to pay the expenses of illegal aliens care.
How many taxes were raised to pay for this war?

I think that the biggest question that we can ask ourselves
is how can we stop you MORONS for posting the stupidest
questions ever posed, did all of you just fall out of the
window licking bus with out wearing your helmets

You talk of HONOR, when will the democrats put up
their honor and honor the words they spoke after 9/11
when they voted to go to war.

"I voted for the war before I voted against it" -- John Kerry

And your link is to a liberal based web page, they have
quotes from the Washington Post whom I would not
believe it they told me it was raining and I was soaking wet.

Like the caveman on the geico commercial says


"yeah well next time do a little research"

Answer 4

Did you know that conservatives give the most $$ towards charities in this country? Did you know that conservatives typically are the people who do not listen to or spread the dirty joke that's going around the office, who honor God by obeying His commandments, who honor country by serving, and honor Americans by not spreading vicious lies to other countries about our government? Humanity? Is that what liberals call it when they vote to have the right to kill unborn babies?

Answer 5

Make their children serve in the military, then maybe life will hold more value than money. Which is more inhumane....abortion or a childhood filled with neglect and abuse from parent that did not want that child?

Answer 6

We do. It's liberals who are always harping on money. It's liberals who are the Moneytheists.

Answer 7

Make the Democrats do it.

Answer 8

How do we get liberals to stop being such pu$$y$

Answer 9

When liberals stop asking for our money to fund social welfare programs.