[MamaTexan]

Personally, I think it boils down to the degradation of our culture’s morals over the past 40 years or so. Instead of patriotism and ethics, it’s a “what’s in it for me” attitude that’s become the norm, rather than the exception.

Exactly!

We've become an instant gratification nation.

Things are no longer done right just because its the right thing to do.

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I've never really understood America's habit of blowing things up just to 'rebuild' them again, either...but maybe it's just me.

:-)

[perez24]

I’m not exactly disagreeing with you, but an article from the Center for Corporate Policy included this blurb:

In 1941, Harry S. Truman, then a U.S. Senator, launched a special committee to investigate fraud and waste in WWII contracts. While today’s lawmakers have held only a handful of hearings on Iraq war contracts, the Truman Committee held 432 hearings with 1,798 witnesses and issued 51 reports between 1941 and 1948.

The Truman Committee saved taxpayers some $15 billion (in 1940s dollars) and prevented hundreds, if not thousands of deaths by uncovering faulty military equipment. For example, the Committee revealed that the military helped aerospace firm Curtiss-Wright cover up defects in airplane motors it sold to the Air Force.

Doesn’t justify what goes on today, but an indicator that things aren’t all that different.

http://www.corporatepolicy.org/topics/warprofiteering.htm

Now I don’t know if this some sort of left wing hate site or whatever, but it showed up in a search.