why aren't more people angry about making a profit from war?

Question

so many people get angry about sports players gambling on a game.....

How is it that more people aren't irate about the fact, that many people who are directly involved with this war on terror, are profiting from it?

People within Halliburton, the oil industry, hired mercenaries and many other people are taking untold billions from American taxpayers as a DIRECT profit from this war in which our soldiers are dying?

I truly don't understand this. Maybe people just don't make that connection?

to Dashloc4, pete rose provided a service to baseball, so your point is invalid. From your previous responses you seem a bit ignorant, so i won't reply further.

To other respondants, why haven't people really become outraged at this particular point? Maybe we don't care about soldiers anymore?

To the rest, thanks for the feedback.

Answer 1

Because those same people influence the media and rather people focus on every aspect of sports events, making them headlines news, and rarely ever post information about their corruption so people are left having no idea how bad things are.

Answer 2

Do you think people would like to make a financial lose from war ?
The losers usually do.
Business does not exist to lose money. The war on Islamo-nazism
is an effort by all Americans and hopefully many of our allies. The reason we pay taxes is for our government to protect us. Iraq, Afganistan and many other places
around the globe are involved in the Moslems wars. They are seperate fronts in 1 war.
Your question belies the fact that you truly don't understand war. It takes money to win, you should be thankful that you live in a country that has the money and military to win, and we are winning. Death to the Islamofacists.

Answer 3

Every people are already fed up with these people who are stealing , and using taxpayers money , and all of their horrific deeds . But the masses are human, and human tends to be tired , by this annoying things that is happening . People knows that even if they complain , they would do it anyway .,
The tendency , humans become , aggressive , egoistic , and violent towards others , this is because , they know that nobody`s listening , and they tend to defend themselves as well. They try to avert their attention to another topics or subject , because of frustrations and disappointments. This goes on and on , from time to time , and without knowing , it is already affecting our lives specially our family and of course to the society, spreading like cancer .

Answer 4

Since they are providing a service to the war effort of course they are making a profit.

Do you think that they would make these products for free. Do you think that anyone would provide anything innovative if they were not rewarded for their efforts?

We have tried that and the last I checked the Soviet Union was a total failure.

Answer 5

I've been mad since Vietnam. It takes quite a person to smile and say that the economy is up. You and I go to the supermarket and see the rising prices there and the cost of gasoline. I realize inflation is not up because of the war. War boosts the economy at the cost of our young men and women. I'm irate. I kick myself on a regular basis for not voting for Ann Richard for govenor of Texas instead of the idiot I did vote for.

Answer 6

If America as a whole didn't profit from war and promoting war to create demand for the sale of weapons to other nations then America would be a poor, bankrupt nation.

Answer 7

There are many people that don't even know about how privatized the war is.
Those that do know about it need to start spreading the word because thats all we can really do.

Answer 8

No one wanted the loss of peace on earth goodwill to men.
With all the mortgages and bills to pay.
We got work to do.
In the creation of peace on earth goodwill to men.
Luke 9.55-56
What do you think?

Answer 9

Might as well throw KBR into the bunch.

Answer 10

That's the way of the world. What can you do?