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Re: No One Listened To Dwight Eisenhower
Author: Pdxrailtransit
Date: 11-11-2017 - 17:16
GBThe Unprofessional Iconoclast Wrote:
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> Why is is that there's always plenty of money to
> feed the Military Industrial Complex but there's
> never any money for Amtrak to buy new passenger
> cars or replace the more-than-century old tubes
> under the Hudson River?
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
Amen, except for letting the Dulles Bros hatch all their containment conspiracies and building the Interstates, Dwight was a righteous dude.
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> Why is is that there's always plenty of money to
> feed the Military Industrial Complex but there's
> never any money for Amtrak to buy new passenger
> cars or replace the more-than-century old tubes
> under the Hudson River?
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
Amen, except for letting the Dulles Bros hatch all their containment conspiracies and building the Interstates, Dwight was a righteous dude.
