Iraq for Sales: BANNED Excerpts

Note the reference to 'Cost-Plus" Do a Google search on that and you'll understand more about how the US economy has been distorted over the last few decades.

Edited to add:

Cost plus pricingis a cost-based method for setting the prices of goods and services. Under this approach, you add together the direct material cost, direct labor cost, and overhead costs for a product, and add to it a markup percentage (to create a profit margin) in order to derive the price of the product.