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.
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.
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.
That was a great article, I bookmarked it. Meanwhile, overnight Israel flew over 250 sorties, destroying the entire Syrian Navy, and as much of their ammo depots and air power as possible. Also abandoned is Russian high tech radar, which our IC will want to get their hands on as it could give us a big advantage at a time when Russian R&D isn't advancing so rapidly.
LOTS is happening very quickly, with China not being outdone ...
President Eisenhower imagined what could have been done with all that money in the 1950s:
President Eisenhower was a very smart man, and absolutely correct in this case. He was right about the military-industrial complex too.
It's a shame that future generations of politicians learned absolutely nothing from him and only allowed things to get worse.
Yes, it is a shame. We would have been significantly better off today had we taken heed of this idea.
"Learning"
You should know better.
The major work of the most influential Prof of both Clintons lays their agenda bare: Tragedy and Hope.
I like Ike 👍
^ This guy watches campaign ads from the 1950s lol
That was a great article, I bookmarked it. Meanwhile, overnight Israel flew over 250 sorties, destroying the entire Syrian Navy, and as much of their ammo depots and air power as possible. Also abandoned is Russian high tech radar, which our IC will want to get their hands on as it could give us a big advantage at a time when Russian R&D isn't advancing so rapidly.
LOTS is happening very quickly, with China not being outdone ...