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HDSam

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3. Privatizing the VA

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Fri Mar 11, 2016, 06:38 PM

Mar 2016

will be a horrific corporate achievement. They will have turned every aspect of war into a profit-based industry. Preparing for war, going to war, and recovering from war will based on profit and loss statements, not the cost of human lives. When corporations that run this country through contributions to politicians profit from war, what incentive do they have to maintain peace? None.

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