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HOW SMEDLEY BUTLER WOULD SMASH THE WAR RACKET.....OF COURSE THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN...

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TEOTWAWKI

TEOTWAWKI

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!


Of course this will ever happen there are more than enough poor families propagandized into sending their children in to wars for profit. The rich do know how to manipulate weak minds..

Yella

Yella

Nope, it will never happen since the CEOs of Corporate American have bought the Congress of the United States and can get virtually anything they want that requires a congressional vote.

I doubt that any Congressman could be elected or reelected without buying television time for ads and Corporate television networks have that cranked up to make a glut of profit.

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