tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002602.post4763301712290576697..comments2023-07-08T06:34:54.948-07:00Comments on Projections: Here’s to your HealthStevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10446337419977796973noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002602.post-33242033864927298992010-01-20T11:24:05.597-08:002010-01-20T11:24:05.597-08:00There's no question but that what America can ...There's no question but that what America can do socially is crippled by military spending. Dwight Eisenhower said it best:<br /><br />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.<br /><br />This world in arms is not spending money alone.<br /><br />It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.<br /><br />The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.<br /><br />It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.<br /><br />It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement.<br /><br />We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.<br /><br />We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.<br /><br />This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.<br /><br />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. These plain and cruel truths define the peril and point the hope that come with this spring of 1953.K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10222703055177237209noreply@blogger.com