One important part of former President Harry S Truman's legacy that Rumsfeld seems unlikely to highlight is his crusade against war profiteering.
As a U.S. senator in 1941, Truman drove thousands of miles around the country going from one defense plant to another documenting waste and fraud.
He then headed the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, the Truman committee. The process saved American taxpayers $15 billion (in 1940s dollars). And by uncovering faulty military equipment, he prevented the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of U.S. soldiers!
Truman's investigatory team played a critical role in overseeing the military's overseers. In 1943, for example, it began looking into the aerospace firm Curtiss-Wright after getting tips that the company was delivering defective motors to what was then called the Army Air Corps. The military officials responsible for inspecting the plant insisted that all was rosy, but the committee pressed on, conducting a three-city investigation and taking more than 1,000 pages of sworn testimony. The dirt it uncovered proved that the company had sold leaky motors to the government and covered it up with forged inspection reports.
The military had protected the company by removing inspectors who attempted to block the flawed parts from being installed in airplanes. As a result of the investigation, heads rolled at Curtiss-Wright, and one general wound up in prison. Bottom line here...the President used to be someone who looked after the general good of the country, took the mission personally.
"Now you see the violence inherit in the system! Looks like Truman saw the dangers as well.
Perhaps, in the shadow of FDR?
The more I look into this, the more twisted it becomes.
WAR PROFITEERING IS REAL !
Truman, a True Man
Truman, a True Man
Tom...I never really studied it, but why was Communism so frowned upon here by people like Hoover ?
...what were they trying to hide?....free enterprise maybe?...not sure, but something to ponder.
...what were they trying to hide?....free enterprise maybe?...not sure, but something to ponder.
Truman, a True Man
and as I said before...why can't we have an arm wrestle or a game of chess instead of wars?
...no profit in it !
...no profit in it !
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Truman, a True Man
COMMUNISM IS WHAT IT IS, NO ILLUSIONS FOR THE PTB.
In democracy, you can have the illusion that fools the people into thinking that they elect the leaders, and in actuality the PTB work the puppets in the background. They have all the power and money but nobody knows who they are.
In democracy, you can have the illusion that fools the people into thinking that they elect the leaders, and in actuality the PTB work the puppets in the background. They have all the power and money but nobody knows who they are.