Smedley Darlington Butler

* Born: West Chester, Pa., July 30, 1881
* Educated: Haverford School
* Married: Ethel C. Peters, of Philadelphia, June 30, 1905
* Awarded two congressional medals of honor:
1. capture of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1914
2. capture of Ft. Riviere, Haiti, 1917
* Distinguished service medal, 1919
* Major General - United States Marine Corps
* Retired Oct. 1, 1931
* On leave of absence to act as
director of Dept. of Safety, Philadelphia, 1932
* Lecturer -- 1930's
* Republican Candidate for Senate, 1932
* Died at Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, June 21, 1940
* For more information about Major General Butler,
contact the United States Marine Corps.

CHAPTER ONE

War Is A Racket

War is good for the male.
Not good for the female.
War develops strength - honour - courage and moral conduct.
Women become weaker and are protected FROM war.
By woman getting involved in war - they are trying to be male - which they
are not.
The same as men do not take up knitting or sewing or changing nappies and
bottle feeding.
THE BORG

"ZerkonX" X.net> wrote in message news:pan.2008.02.15.14.46.59@X.net...

I doubt that it made many in Germany or Japan or for that matter in
France and most of the rest of Europe. Even in Britain one of the
winners, most rich families lost most of their money because of
government taxation.

War is overall bad for business, the sharemarket goes down when war
starts and goes up on news that it is finishing.

On Feb 15, 11:47 pm, ZerkonX X.net> wrote:

And therefore so too is the means to fund war a racket, its called
stealing legitimized in a scam called taxation.

Tax is the war used to pay for any and all other wars.

Michael Gordge

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:57:57 +1100, bernardZ wrote:

Being bad for people (in supermarkets) is not the same as being bad for
business.

It was WWII that really pulled the US out of the depression. Many things
were rationed.

On Feb 18, 1:00 am, ZerkonX X.net> wrote:

Supermarket is not the stockmarket.

The US was one of the few participances in the war where economically
it was good for business.

In Germany, France, Eastern Europe, occupied Western Europe, Italy etc
most businessmen would have lost almost everything. In Britain about
half his wealth would have gone.

The dumbya quagmire _lowered_ taxes on the rich:

"Either support tax cuts on the rich or you're a Saddam lover."

Bret Cahill

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:32:41 -0800, bernardz wrote:

If you extend this "bad for business" into Europe then yes, ok.

If confined to the US, then no.
There is an interesting aspect to the War business during WWII. It
modeled Communism in many ways.