"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. 1/4

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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. 2/4
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It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. 3/4
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This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower 4/4
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Replying to @marwilliamson
I seem to remember that under Obama the USA ran out of bombs one year because they had dropped so many. 2014? Think about the amount of "Hope and Change" he could have given the American people. Alas, there was none...
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Replying to @marwilliamson
I suppose I'm in the minority here, but I don't care about the world. And I assure you it doesn't care about us one bit. My only concern is the American people. There are many reallocations that need to be made right here at home first
Replying to @marwilliamson
youtube.com/IlqJaJuEvds Eleanor Roosevelt: The woman behind the man
Replying to @marwilliamson
Not to worry. They have so much money in there now some is bound to ooze on to the poor below.
Replying to @marwilliamson
This man, Eisenhower, knew the costs of war and all its devastation. I've always thought this address/speech was so wise, perceptive, and full of common sense and compassion.
Replying to @marwilliamson
You're literally a supporter of the nuclear armed genocidal Israeli settler colony.
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So true but go tell that to russia, china, iran, nkorea ..... It only comes close to happening if you leave those countries alone .... That wont happen especially today in our overly toxic group think woke envoirment Judt look at how us citizens are treated by these clowns