War profiteer throws a BIG party

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002527.html

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You see, Brooks and his company -- DHB Industries -- make a lot of the bulletproof vests that our fighting men and women over in Iraq and Afghanistan have been wearing. The Pentagon bought them even though the union of mostly low-paid workers at DHB's plant in Florida; a small, muckraking paper, the Marine Corp Times; and experts from two government agencies had been warning that the vests didn't stop 9 mm bullets. Earlier this year, the Marines finally recalled some 5,277 of the DHB vests.

Forget about the fact that scores of DHB investors are now suing the company after Brooks cashed in a whopping $186 million of his stock just days before it tanked. Or the allegations of union busting. It is for the crime -- moral if not legal -- of selling shoddy body armor to our troops that we'd like to see Brooks sent off to jail.

Except Brooks is not only a very free, and very rich man, but he's now taking all that money that he's reaped from George W. Bush's wars, and he's rubbing it in your face.

This weekend, Brooks spent a reported $10 million of his war profits...on a bat mitzvah. A bat mitzvah where the entertainers included Aerosmith, 50 Cent, Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks, and more. He even sent the public corporation's jet to Pittsburgh to pick up Steve Tyler and Joe Perry.

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a bang-up party, paid for with millions of dollars that are soaked in the blood of our dead! What a SWELL memory! What a wonderful thing to tell her grandchildren, years from now!! "The blood of American patriots paid for my Bat, bay-bee!"

I now understand the full sense of the word 'revulsion!'

and hell.

I always thought he was one of those "stand up to the man" kind of people. Guess not.

And directly to the families of those killed in Iraq.

He should enlist himself. If he thinks his lifestyle is worth keeping, he should do no less.

And one day, he and/or his offspring will have to. Well, at least his offspring will...

he should be in jail, nevermind dumping the stock etc.
bet he's a Republican

that mitzvahs are a larger expense than a wedding for most families. She said most families in the congregation where she works spend upwards of $15,000 at least. Usually over $25K. Everything is money, money, money. You don't have a seat in the congregation during holidays unless you pay your "dues" for the year. Then, where you sit is in direct correllation to how much you give. My MIL is a fundie and everything is money, money, money in their congregation also. She said it was nothing to raise $40K in a weekend to send the youth group someplace, buy a new organ, etc.

I have friends who do the same for their daughter's quinceanera (spelling?) and for Holy Communion. The girls gowns alone are 3-4x what my wedding gown was.

Here I am, belonging to a liberal Presby. congregation and we get by with just enough money to pay our pastor, a secretary and run the actual physical building itself. We run special drives for donations to local charities and charities abroad. Our Vac. Bible School arts and crafts program had a whole church funded budget of $180 this summer (1 wk long, crafts and supplies for 50 kids for 5 nights). What money does come in goes out to charities or needy people pretty quickly.

I can't help but think what could be done if all that surplus money that the other people seem to have were donated to the such causes instead of furthering themselves. We don't live like paupers, but we are comfortable and feel that if we have what we need and some of our wants, then we should "share the wealth".

No matter how long I think on this, I don't think I'll EVER understand it. There is plenty of money to go around, but a majority just refuse to share with those less fortunate.

this should be on every news outlet