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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 co

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.

fmajid 6y ago
From that well-known loony-leftist, Dwight Eisenhower. /s
- m463 6y ago
  He did write with remarkable candor when leaving office. "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex."
- johnrgrace 6y ago
  Rumors are he spent several years doing antifa activities in a leadership role.
js2 6y ago
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwighteisenhowercrossofiron.htm https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwighteisenhowercr...
Rebelgecko 6y ago
An interesting counterpoint when a nun wrote to a NASA asst administrator and suggested that NASA be shut down so that its budget could be repurposed to help feed and clothe the poor. Not all of the arguments apply to military spending, buy some do: https://lettersofnote.com/2012/08/06/why-explore-space/ https://lettersofnote.com/2012/08/06/why-explore-space/ TBH I think it's a moot point anyways. Maybe federal budgets were a zero-sum game during the Eisenhower Administration, but I don't think that's been the case for a long time
credit_guy 6y ago
I was hungry and not fed, cold and not clothed ( * ). Living behind the Iron Curtain. And because of all those guns that America kept making, those warships she kept launching and rockets she kept firing, the Iron Curtain eventually fell, and I'm not hungry and cold anymore. ( * ) I was not literally hungry, but our food options were extremely limited. Clothes the same. And shoes. As for cold, that I was. Many, many cold winter nights with no heating and oh, so many times, no electricity.

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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 co

by NegativeLatency 6y ago

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.

fmajid 6y ago
From that well-known loony-leftist, Dwight Eisenhower. /s
- m463 6y ago
  He did write with remarkable candor when leaving office. "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex."
- johnrgrace 6y ago
  Rumors are he spent several years doing antifa activities in a leadership role.
js2 6y ago
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwighteisenhowercrossofiron.htm https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwighteisenhowercr...
Rebelgecko 6y ago
An interesting counterpoint when a nun wrote to a NASA asst administrator and suggested that NASA be shut down so that its budget could be repurposed to help feed and clothe the poor. Not all of the arguments apply to military spending, buy some do: https://lettersofnote.com/2012/08/06/why-explore-space/ https://lettersofnote.com/2012/08/06/why-explore-space/ TBH I think it's a moot point anyways. Maybe federal budgets were a zero-sum game during the Eisenhower Administration, but I don't think that's been the case for a long time
credit_guy 6y ago
I was hungry and not fed, cold and not clothed ( * ). Living behind the Iron Curtain. And because of all those guns that America kept making, those warships she kept launching and rockets she kept firing, the Iron Curtain eventually fell, and I'm not hungry and cold anymore. ( * ) I was not literally hungry, but our food options were extremely limited. Clothes the same. And shoes. As for cold, that I was. Many, many cold winter nights with no heating and oh, so many times, no electricity.