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**Stacypettlerr** · 02-12-2009, 03:24 PM

I like General Smedley Butler's idea that everyone should be paid the same as the lowliest grunt. If no one can profit from war, perhaps we won't go to war.

War Is A Racket [excerpt]

A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.

The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labor before the nations manhood can be conscripted. One month before the Government can conscript the young men of the nation – it must conscript capital and industry and labor. Let the officers and the directors and the high-powered executives of our armament factories and our munitions makers and our shipbuilders and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all the other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted – to get $30 a month, the same wage as the lads in the trenches get.
Major General Smedley D. Butler - USMC Retired

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02-12-2009, 03:24 PM	#22
Stacypettlerr Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 456 Senior Member	I like General Smedley Butler's idea that everyone should be paid the same as the lowliest grunt. If no one can profit from war, perhaps we won't go to war. War Is A Racket [excerpt] A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labor before the nations manhood can be conscripted. One month before the Government can conscript the young men of the nation – it must conscript capital and industry and labor. Let the officers and the directors and the high-powered executives of our armament factories and our munitions makers and our shipbuilders and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all the other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted – to get $30 a month, the same wage as the lads in the trenches get. Major General Smedley D. Butler - USMC Retired [more]
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