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Speaking of the U.S. Military Industrial Complex and them supplying these outrageously priced weapons vs a drone.......

I thought in the run-up to the IRAQ war, by the Cheney/Rumsfeld Presidency, that there would be a need for a un-fathomable amount of money needed to supply the military to supply and then re-build all the military supplies and equipment used.

So, I bought shares of stock in all the seven major military corporations.....Boeing, Raytheon, etc etc
And I sat on them, looking for a serious price increase in their stock ............and surprisingly they didn't increase in price like I suspected, and it made me curious.

It was hard to find information, but I found a privately held group with the name Carlisle(sp?) Because it was privately held, there was little information on them. I did find out that HWBush, when he left the Presidency had landed there as the Chairman of the Board? for years and years.
I saw where it was a group of 602 of the nation's wealthiest who all owned part of this group, and were well invested in the Military Corporations at the time of the IRAQ war.... Like I said it was almost impossible to determine what they were up to. But it would be interesting to have some crack team from Rolling Stone or WaPo to look into it. Because it seemed at the time, all purchases for war items seemed to possibly be run through Carlisle, acting as a middle man, and gleaming the profits of the massive sale of a half a Trillion dollars in purchases needed to supply the war, and the re-building of the stuff all over again that had been depleted.....
I could be off base, but it seemed plausible....????????

I happened upon something else that I found fascinating regarding the Carlisle group.
Money was being cut out of public school budgets across the nation by Republicans, so money was not available to the schools, prompting them to do school fund raising projects.
An elementary school kid and his mother came to our door, selling small bags of popcorn and single sheets of grift wrapping paper.
They wanted five bucks for each petty item, that would normally cost 50 cents. The mom told me they got a dollar from each purchase from the company supplying them......I studied the color brochure of all the items, and when I read the fine print about the Company supplying them, it was the Carlisle (sp?) Group.
Fascinating, cut funding to schools, the schools would have to raise money, somehow, so come up with a scheme to take advantage of it......I figure that the schools made a buck, and they made 4 bucks on every sale.......

Anytime a school group, girl scout cookie drive, or any other organizations comes to my door, I don't buy anything, I just give the group twenty bucks to go directly to the group.....