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May 16, 2013
Ah yes, Civil War deaths, but think of the vast fortunes made during it! The House of Morgan (JP Morgan et al.) picked up defective muskets (or whatever they were called back then) then re-labeled them and, after bribing the appropriate quartermasters, sold them back to the government; it is estimated that at least one out of every four or five dead Union soldiers was due to those Morgan muskets! Then there's death merchant, Andrew Carnegie, who made his big bucks as the Superintendent of Military Railways and Telegraphs, which he then reinvested into iron and steel companies which he knew were going to receive government contracts. War, ain't it sweet for the psychos and greedheads? (Carnegie received his sweetheart appointment from Thomas Scott, sadly whom Lincoln appointed his Secretary of War - - it was Scott who was the creator behind the holding company, which allowed the robber barons (today referred to as "philanthropists") to hide their ownership of other corporations.)