They are Stupid.

[calteacherguy]

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.

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 houses of its children. This is not a way of life…Under the cloud of war, it is humanity hanging itself on a cross of iron

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. . . In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of power exists and will persist.

God help this country when someone sits at this desk who doesn't know as much about the military as I do.

http://sherwright.com/eisenhower_speaks.htm

[rubberducky]

1. Oh, how true are these words.

[datadiva]

2. I have gained so much respect

for President Eisenhower in the last few years. I never really studied him because he was a Republican and was slightly before my time. He saw what was going to happen with corporatism in our society and warned against it. Looks like he warned us about milatarism also. Thank you for posting this. I am going to copy and keep it.

[fenriswolf]

3. i would have been a republican

because they used to stand for something besides bigotry, repressed homosexuality and evangelicalism. But sadly we saw one party perverted decades ago and are witnissing the other parties perversion before our eyes.

[tech3149]

4. Back when I was in school I was actually exposed to history.

That gave me a tremendous respect for FDR and his wife, Truman, and Eisenhower. Kennedy could have been the next FDR if he were allowed to live. Since then, we've only had mediocre, self-serving elitist's.

[PatSeg]

7. I have as well

I never had a strong opinion about him either way. He is the first president I remember from childhood and it seemed like he was there forever. I didn't know until fairly recently that he was sought by both the republicans and the democrats as their nominee. It certainly was a different time.

[NCarolinawoman]

5. Sigh... General Clark wanted to take money from the Pentagon to fund Universal Health Care.

He said that he knew how to get the money and "the other Generals knew he knew where to find it."


Ike would have been a Democrat today, and would have thought "W" was a horrible joke.

[superkia]

6. And now they have to keep us in fear to support the...

terrorism industrial complex. We should ask ourselves, how many times does the candidate we support speak of terrorism or terrorists in their fund raisers or rallies instead of other issues more important like the constitution and our rights? What are their agandas? Who are they for, corporations or the people?