re: #175 WindUpBird

I will say I like what Ike said about the military industrial complex!

Conservatives don’t like to talk about that so much.

more Ike quotes:

“Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists
and rebels — men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As
their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”

“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 fifty miles
of concrete pavement. 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. This is, I
repeat, 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.”

“Preventative war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.”

“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.”