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One more thing, re: 'Arming to the Teeth'...keep Ike's "Chance for Peace" speech in mind...

Author: TyroneIrish (20438 Posts - Joined: Oct 8, 2020)
Posted at 12:23 pm on Oct 23, 2023
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from that speech....
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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 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 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 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.[1][5]

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And as for our 'Southern Border'...it's all on the GOP to stifle its entrenched business interests (see my post on Texas businesses fighting border restrictions) and join with the Dems to get our immigration laws in line with current, and future, needs...might even be a good idea to redirect those billions for new armaments to such societal needs....what do you think?


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Replies to: "One more thing, re: 'Arming to the Teeth'...keep Ike's "Chance for Peace" speech in mind..."

  • Are we repeating the isolationist follies of the 1930s? [LINK] - Curly1918 - 10:56am 10/23/23 (17) [View All]
    • Who is worst president: Edith Wilson after Woodrow's stroke, or whomever decides things for Biden? [NT] - NedoftheHill - 2:21pm 10/23/23
      • whoever [NT] - Chris94 - 2:40pm 10/23/23
        • Whatever... [NT] - TakethetrainKnute - 12:01pm 10/24/23
        • Indeed. So you think Biden's handlers are worse. Didn't expect that. [NT] - NedoftheHill - 5:02pm 10/23/23
        • I agree. Biden Handlers. [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 4:31pm 10/23/23
    • No. Next stupid question. [NT] - Chris94 - 12:27pm 10/23/23
      • Do you support the isolationists? [NT] - Curly1918 - 7:06pm 10/23/23
        • I favor restraint, not isolation [NT] - Chris94 - 10:06pm 10/23/23
    • One more thing, re: 'Arming to the Teeth'...keep Ike's "Chance for Peace" speech in mind... - TyroneIrish - 12:23pm 10/23/23
      • Sounds like RFK Jr. - iairishcheeks - 1:28pm 10/23/23
        • Ike never gutted Defense spending...he just advised using "Prudential Judgement" when allocating [LINK] - TyroneIrish - 1:47pm 10/23/23
          • Without clicking on your link, it's garbage. - iairishcheeks - 2:07pm 10/23/23
            • Brilliant, as always. [NT] - Frank L - 6:15pm 10/23/23
      • Guns versus Butter and the PPF. Basic Econ. [NT] - Shadow_of_the_Dome - 12:54pm 10/23/23
        • For those not familiar with the "PPF"...e.g. those averse to college educations...(see link) [NT] [LINK] - TyroneIrish - 1:00pm 10/23/23
    • One thing for sure...the current administration is in total agreement with your linked article... - TyroneIrish - 11:57am 10/23/23
    • Uhm, don’t know about repeating, but it sure seems to bear resemblance to that period. - Frank L - 11:25am 10/23/23
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