Amen. As long as our troops and their families are making the ultimate sacrifice, NONE of these contractors should be making profits - salaries and costs only.
You tell em comrade! From each according to his ability, to each according to his need!
Don't forget the investors, we'll need to lay down the law and make sure individuals and firms who back these manufacturers don't get any returns on their investments.
blade,
Nothing wrong with making a FAIR profit for responding to emergency needs. Smells like his profits were beyond fair, for a defective product. And then he had the Chutzpah to make a public spectacle over how “My product is superior to the existing” and he lied to back that up.
Tet68 (Were you there too, Tet?) has it right. The new rehabilitated Abu Graihb is too good for him. Is Alcatraz still available?
TC
I'm all for supporting the troops...but your statement is anti-capitalist bilge.
There would be NO defense industry if profit was banned.
One can support the troops and still make a profit.
How you find the two to be incompatible is beyond my comprehension.
And then tell me why stockholders invest in these companies? A reasonable profit made by delivering needed, quality gear to our soldiers is an honorable thing.
Profit made by delivering junk is not. The two are different.
I suppose you wouldn't pay your doctor for a life saving operation either, or the pharmaceutical company that made the drugs to cure your illness, since you might think it wrong to profit from your illness.
The issue here isn't profit, it's a matter of cheating to get that profit. I see no reason not to reward folks who come up with things that save soldiers lives, nor in hanging those who cost soldiers their lives.