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How do we explain why we left Afghanistan for six years to go to Iraq, break our economy, world financial system, go back to Afghanistan as if it is suddenly a national security issue after wasting six years, then continue to promote war for years on end with fear, fear, fear?
Hundreds of our mis-representatives from both parties, the only two in control of this nation for as long as I can remember, accept millions from defense, hand out billions to defense, invest in contributors, not only defense but banks, insurance, agri corruption, anybody with a million to hand to each party, & we call this representation? !
Why don't our mis-representatives do anything but talk about job creation? Where would they enlistees if kids could find jobs or afford college after they destroyed the draft? How would representatives know how to create jobs after giving millions away to illegal immigration & free trade promoting Communist China after millions of Americans fought & many died or were wounded fighting communism? $$$, anybody with a million to give to each party has representation, We the People only pay them to give our jobs & money away & make millions doing it.
Representative's kids go to ivy league schools to become the next generation of politicians, lawyers, great minds on Wall Street, & bankers to rob & send the next generation working class to war while robbing US just as they have for a century or longer.
As with Social Security our mis-representatives robbed of trillions, now going broke at an accelerated pace due to so many unemployed, all we get is talk, & years of theft by the people we pay to represent US.
The American people would rather be lied too, told how they are the greatest at everything we do, from work to religion, to sports, & how pretty we are by the people we pay to represent US rather than hear the truth or do anything about it while being robbed by the liars, cheats, thieves, millionaire terrorist on our payroll making millions.
Nice gig if you can get it?
By Lindsay Renick Mayer
April 03, 2008 | When Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S military officer in Iraq, comes to Capitol Hill next week to brief Congress, he will be addressing lawmakers who have more than just a political stake in the five-year war.
Along with their colleagues in the House and Senate, the politicians who will get a status report from the general and the U.S. ambassador to Iraq have as much as $196 million of their own money invested in companies doing business with the Department of Defense, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics has calculated. From aircraft and weapons manufacturers to producers of medical supplies and soft drinks, the investment portfolios of more than a quarter of Congress—and of countless constituents—include holdings in companies paid billions of dollars each month to support America's military in Iraq and elsewhere.
The Investors: Lawmakers with the most money invested in companies with Department of Defense contracts
Member of Congress Minimum Value of Investment Maximum Value of Investment
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass) $28,872,067 $38,209,020
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) $12,081,050 $49,140,000
Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC) $9,232,037 $37,105,000
Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis) $5,207,668 $7,612,653
Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif) $2,684,050 $6,260,000
Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich) $2,469,029 $8,360,000
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa) $2,000,002 $2,000,002
Rep. Tom Petri (R-Wis) $1,365,004 $5,800,000
Rep. Kenny Ewell Marchant (R-Texas) $1,163,231 $1,163,231
Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) $1,000,001 $5,000,000
Includes investments in companies with DOD contracts of $5 million or more, according to 2006 data on FedSpending.org. Members of Congress must report their personal finances annually. Holdings shown here were as of December 31, 2006.
According to the most recent reports of their personal finances, 151 current members of Congress had between $78.7 million and $195.5 million invested in companies that received defense contracts of at least $5 million in 2006. In all, these companies received more than $275.6 billion from the government in 2006, or $755 million per day, according to FedSpending.org, a website of the budget watchdog group OMB Watch.
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How do we explain why we left Afghanistan for six years to go to Iraq, break our economy, world financial system, go back to Afghanistan as if it is suddenly a national security issue after wasting six years, then continue to promote war for years on end with fear, fear, fear?
Hundreds of our mis-representatives from both parties, the only two in control of this nation for as long as I can remember, accept millions from defense, hand out billions to defense, invest in contributors, not only defense but banks, insurance, agri corruption, anybody with a million to hand to each party, & we call this representation? !
Why don't our mis-representatives do anything but talk about job creation? Where would they enlistees if kids could find jobs or afford college after they destroyed the draft? How would representatives know how to create jobs after giving millions away to illegal immigration & free trade promoting Communist China after millions of Americans fought & many died or were wounded fighting communism? $$$, anybody with a million to give to each party has representation, We the People only pay them to give our jobs & money away & make millions doing it.
Representative's kids go to ivy league schools to become the next generation of politicians, lawyers, great minds on Wall Street, & bankers to rob & send the next generation working class to war while robbing US just as they have for a century or longer.
As with Social Security our mis-representatives robbed of trillions, now going broke at an accelerated pace due to so many unemployed, all we get is talk, & years of theft by the people we pay to represent US.
The American people would rather be lied too, told how they are the greatest at everything we do, from work to religion, to sports, & how pretty we are by the people we pay to represent US rather than hear the truth or do anything about it while being robbed by the liars, cheats, thieves, millionaire terrorist on our payroll making millions.
Nice gig if you can get it?
By Lindsay Renick Mayer
April 03, 2008 | When Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S military officer in Iraq, comes to Capitol Hill next week to brief Congress, he will be addressing lawmakers who have more than just a political stake in the five-year war.
Along with their colleagues in the House and Senate, the politicians who will get a status report from the general and the U.S. ambassador to Iraq have as much as $196 million of their own money invested in companies doing business with the Department of Defense, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics has calculated. From aircraft and weapons manufacturers to producers of medical supplies and soft drinks, the investment portfolios of more than a quarter of Congress—and of countless constituents—include holdings in companies paid billions of dollars each month to support America's military in Iraq and elsewhere.
The Investors: Lawmakers with the most money invested in companies with Department of Defense contracts
Member of Congress Minimum Value of Investment Maximum Value of Investment
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass) $28,872,067 $38,209,020
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) $12,081,050 $49,140,000
Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC) $9,232,037 $37,105,000
Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis) $5,207,668 $7,612,653
Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif) $2,684,050 $6,260,000
Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich) $2,469,029 $8,360,000
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa) $2,000,002 $2,000,002
Rep. Tom Petri (R-Wis) $1,365,004 $5,800,000
Rep. Kenny Ewell Marchant (R-Texas) $1,163,231 $1,163,231
Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) $1,000,001 $5,000,000
Includes investments in companies with DOD contracts of $5 million or more, according to 2006 data on FedSpending.org. Members of Congress must report their personal finances annually. Holdings shown here were as of December 31, 2006.
According to the most recent reports of their personal finances, 151 current members of Congress had between $78.7 million and $195.5 million invested in companies that received defense contracts of at least $5 million in 2006. In all, these companies received more than $275.6 billion from the government in 2006, or $755 million per day, according to FedSpending.org, a website of the budget watchdog group OMB Watch.
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