The wit and wisdom of Dwight D. Eisenhower on taxes and other important issues

[WI_DEM]

"Every dollar spent by the government must be paid for either by taxes or by more borrowing with greater debt. The only way to make more tax cuts now is to have bigger and bigger deficits and to borrow more and more money. Either we or our children will have to bear the burden of this debt.
This is one kind of chicken that always comes home to roost. An unwise tax cutter, my fellow citizens, is no real friend of the taxpayer."


"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 in not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense."


"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."


"All of us have heard this term 'preventative war' since the earliest days of Hitler. I recall that is about the first time I heard it. In this day and time... I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing."


"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 misplaced power exists and will persist."


The GOP should listen to Ike on this, but he would be booted out of the party if he were around today:

"Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice."

" . . . Workers have a right to organize into unions and to bargain collectively with their employers, and . . . a strong, free labor movement is an invigorating and necessary part of our industrial society."

[SidDithers]

1. How 'bout (paraphrased) "Gays and Lesbians can't work for the federal government"?...

how's that for wisdom?

:puke:

Sid

[DURHAM D]

2. I am wearing my "I Like Ike" button.

It was my first campaign.

[OHdem10]

3. President Eisenhour would not recognize this Republican Party

today.

[DJ13]

5. He wouldnt recognize the Democratic party either

[Maccagirl]

4. If JFK said this...Coulter would come right out and call him a Commie

instead of the "just weak" meme. We won't even discuss the famous "Military/Industrial Complex" speech. My question about that is-if Eisenhower spoke so plainly against the establishment-why didn't he do anything to stop it and why did he appear to be it's poster boy?