"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'm impressed ... That's a Great Speech ... and President Eisenhower was a Republican ... A real Republican ... A real American ... someone who truly loved this country and its citizens!
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And 60something years later, the US just makes and sells weapons. It's a thug selling crack, raping your cousin and shitting on your lawn under the guise of freedom when it's really at the end of a barrel of a gun. We failed to heed Eisenhower's words.
Replying to @marwilliamson
He’s right but the overall goal of the speech was to justify NATO and its arms buildup in the face of Soviet domination and expansionism
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Industrial/military complex is to collective ego what body/mind complex is to individual ego.
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And that's in 1953 schools, clothes, and hospitals.
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