$10,000,000 bat mitzvah dad made his money on body armour

Not-so-Petty cash
to rock bat mitzvah

Lowdown
History will forever record Elizabeth Brooks' bat mitzvah as "Mitzvahpalooza."

For his daughter's coming-of-age celebration last weekend, multimillionaire Long Island defense contractor David H. Brooks booked two floors of the Rainbow Room, hauled in concert-ready equipment, built a stage, installed special carpeting, outfitted the space with Jumbotrons and arranged command performances by everyone from 50 Cent to Tom Petty to Aerosmith.

I hear it was garish display of rock 'n' roll idol worship for which the famously irascible CEO of DHB Industries, a Westbury-based manufacturer of bulletproof vests, sent his company jet to retrieve Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry from their Saturday gig in Pittsburgh.
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How much body armour could $10 million buy?

:grr:

How many people without health insurance could have been given care?
How many hungry people worldwide could have been fed?
How many tents would that have bought for people in the Pakstani quake zone?

The list goes on and on. This disgusting waste of wealth by a rich man turning his daughter's coming of age into a monument to his own magnificence is why people eventually turn on robber barons, revolt, and kill them.

Surely his daughter would have been honored by spending this easily disposable wealth on any of the things I cited. She may come to be deeply ashamed it was squandered on empty excess in her name.

Who'd ever think that a DEFENSE contractor would be anything but?
;satire;

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?NumOfThou=0&txtName=brooks%2C+david&txtState=NY&txtZip=&txtEmploy=&txtCand=&txt2006=Y&txt2004=Y&txt2002=Y&Order=N

DHB INDUSTRIES INC
6/29/2005
$25,000
National Republican Senatorial Cmte

the disgusting arrogance and moral corruption of our corporate raiders. :puke:

That's just BS.

Don't those artists already have more money than they'll ever spend in their lifetimes?

And they go play some brat overprivileged kid's private party?

They should donate every cent of it to stopping this illegal war.