We get tons of rhetoric about useless Constitutional Amendments like Anti-Flag Burning or Anti-Gay Marriage — amendments that have as much chance of passing the Congress and the States as a gay prostitute would have of getting a White House press pass (whoops, wrong choice of simile!). Anna at annatopia (thank you, darling, for embracing the world of capitalization) got an e-mail with this fabulous idea:
It is time to take a stand and demand a Constitutional Amendment XXVIII prohibiting war profit.
AMENDMENT XXVIII
Sec. 1. War profit is hereby prohibited.
Sec. 2. Congress will enforce this article with strong legislation.
What, no profits? Why, then we might only go to war when it is absolutely necessary! How ever will struggling companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Raytheon, United Technologies, Halliburton, General Electric, Science Applications International Corporation, CSC/ DynCorp ever survive?
(Go ahead, tell me these companies’ profits provide thousands of American jobs. Then tell me how many dead soldiers does a good employment program require.)
