President declares: Every gun that is made, every warship launched is a theft from the hungry

[Papageorgio]

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 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 is, I repeat, 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. … Is there no other way the world may live?
Great speech by a great President.

Funny he said nothing about drone strikes.

 

[rightwinger]

We have a larger military than the next ten countries combined.....who is the threat?

Other nations seem to understand they can build schools, hospitals and feed their people while we build bigger and better military hardware

911

How did that work out?
A military larger than the next ten nations combined

Almost 3000 dead Americans. That's how it worked out.

And the military?

You crow about how big of army we have as if that keeps us from harm. I just showed you that it doesn't.

Exactly

 

[rightwinger]

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 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 is, I repeat, 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. … Is there no other way the world may live?
Great speech by a great President.

Funny he said nothing about drone strikes.

Why would he say that?

 

[bripat9643]

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.

Using taxpayer money to build bombers is ....Patriotism

Using taxpayer money to feed and house Americans is.......Socialism

Are you saying we should get rid of our military?

 

[Lonestar_logic]

911

How did that work out?
A military larger than the next ten nations combined

Almost 3000 dead Americans. That's how it worked out.

And the military?

You crow about how big of army we have as if that keeps us from harm. I just showed you that it doesn't.

Exactly

Apology accepted.

 

[rightwinger]

RW conveniently forgets that Europe has depended on the US of A for defense since WW II.

Of course they don't spend money on defense. Why should they when they have America to defend them.

Its all those pesky treaties that we have.

Oh yeah. Walk softly and carry a big stick. It works quite well.

As for the poor in this country?? They aren't nor should they be anyones responsibility but their own. Let em get a job and stop sucking off the taxpayer tit.

In 2005, the typical household defined as poor by the government had a car and air conditioning. For entertainment, the household had two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR. If there were children, especially boys, in the home, the family had a game system, such as an Xbox or a PlayStation.[4] In the kitchen, the household had a refrigerator, an oven and stove, and a microwave. Other household conveniences included a clothes washer, clothes dryer, ceiling fans, a cordless phone, and a coffee maker.

What is Poverty in the United States Air Conditioning Cable TV and an Xbox

I assume it's about the same ten years later.

Can they afford healthcare, rent, education?

 

[rightwinger]

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.

Using taxpayer money to build bombers is ....Patriotism

Using taxpayer money to feed and house Americans is.......Socialism

Are you saying we should get rid of our military?

I am saying we need to redefine the mission of the military where we are more concerned with the well being of people at home and less concerned with nation building abroad

 

[Hossfly]

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 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 is, I repeat, 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. … Is there no other way the world may live?
Great speech by a great President.

Funny he said nothing about drone strikes.

Why would he say that?

CROSS OF IRON
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...
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.

From the Chance for Peace address delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953. (Regarded as one of the finest speeches of Eisenhower's presidency.)

 

[bripat9643]

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.

Using taxpayer money to build bombers is ....Patriotism

Using taxpayer money to feed and house Americans is.......Socialism

Are you saying we should get rid of our military?

I am saying we need to redefine the mission of the military where we are more concerned with the well being of people at home and less concerned with nation building abroad

So the Dept of Defence should become a welfare agency?

 

[Lonestar_logic]

RW conveniently forgets that Europe has depended on the US of A for defense since WW II.

Of course they don't spend money on defense. Why should they when they have America to defend them.

Its all those pesky treaties that we have.

Oh yeah. Walk softly and carry a big stick. It works quite well.

As for the poor in this country?? They aren't nor should they be anyones responsibility but their own. Let em get a job and stop sucking off the taxpayer tit.

In 2005, the typical household defined as poor by the government had a car and air conditioning. For entertainment, the household had two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR. If there were children, especially boys, in the home, the family had a game system, such as an Xbox or a PlayStation.[4] In the kitchen, the household had a refrigerator, an oven and stove, and a microwave. Other household conveniences included a clothes washer, clothes dryer, ceiling fans, a cordless phone, and a coffee maker.

What is Poverty in the United States Air Conditioning Cable TV and an Xbox

I assume it's about the same ten years later.

Can they afford healthcare, rent, education?

I would imagine they could, but they would have to sacrifice other conveniences. Healthcare has never really been an issue ever since Medicaid came along, education is free up to the 12th grade in every public school

 

[Porker]

Again we get attacks on education from the right while we pump billions into needless weapons systems

American education is NOW an international laughing stock.

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Other nations seem to understand they can build schools, hospitals and feed their people while we build bigger and better military hardware

Meanwhile, we build dumbdown institutions of little or NO LEARNING. And pay the wienies to suck on the government teat more and more and more. By the way how much will that one way trip to Mars we are preparing for cost those poor hongry souls who exist ONLY on our tax dollars? Free of charge to those who qualify...which seems to be most who apply.

Again we get attacks on education from the right while we pump billions into needless weapons systems

That wasn't an attack pretty boy...that is what is happening under Obama who loves to take golfing vacations in Hawaii with the entire Obama clan at a cost of millions and millions of dollars, while the HONGRY starves. Did you ever notice those fat, well fed mommas at the grocery store paying for their stockpile of food with my tax dollars? Did you ever notice that? While sporting their expensive hair weaves and jewelry which my taxes also paid for? Then there is that quick stop at the spohtin' good store to pick Junior up a pair of new Jordans. Then they go home in a car that cost thousands of dollars more than what I'm driving. Did you ever notice that? Keep on dishing out your bullshit "left winger".

Thats your best comeback?


But...but.....Obama takes VACATIONS <sob> <sob>

Fuck you...you worthless piece of shit. You are no longer worth wasting time on.

 

[Porker]

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.

Using taxpayer money to build bombers is ....Patriotism

Using taxpayer money to feed and house Americans is.......Socialism

Are you saying we should get rid of our military?

I am saying we need to redefine the mission of the military where we are more concerned with the well being of people at home and less concerned with nation building abroad

Yeah...we can have them go feed the hongry and braid their hair.

 

[rightwinger]

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 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 is, I repeat, 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. … Is there no other way the world may live?
Great speech by a great President.

Funny he said nothing about drone strikes.

Why would he say that?

CROSS OF IRON
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...
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.

From the Chance for Peace address delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953. (Regarded as one of the finest speeches of Eisenhower's presidency.)

Still true 60 years later

 

[rightwinger]

RW conveniently forgets that Europe has depended on the US of A for defense since WW II.

Of course they don't spend money on defense. Why should they when they have America to defend them.

Its all those pesky treaties that we have.

Oh yeah. Walk softly and carry a big stick. It works quite well.

As for the poor in this country?? They aren't nor should they be anyones responsibility but their own. Let em get a job and stop sucking off the taxpayer tit.

In 2005, the typical household defined as poor by the government had a car and air conditioning. For entertainment, the household had two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR. If there were children, especially boys, in the home, the family had a game system, such as an Xbox or a PlayStation.[4] In the kitchen, the household had a refrigerator, an oven and stove, and a microwave. Other household conveniences included a clothes washer, clothes dryer, ceiling fans, a cordless phone, and a coffee maker.

What is Poverty in the United States Air Conditioning Cable TV and an Xbox

I assume it's about the same ten years later.

Can they afford healthcare, rent, education?

I would imagine they could, but they would have to sacrifice other conveniences. Healthcare has never really been an issue ever since Medicaid came along, education is free up to the 12th grade in every public school

Again you are talking free public services

I can also find functional color TVs, VCRs, Microwaves and Xboxes on the side of the road

 

[Conservative65]

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 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 is, I repeat, 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. … Is there no other way the world may live?



Great speech by a great President



.

I thought the President was a Constitutional scholar. Apparently he missed the part about raising a military in Article I, Section 8 while thinking there was any article about social welfare programs. Just more pandering.

 

[Meathead]

What do you expect when you've got a community organizer? Even if he's not the worst president, Obama is the most inept president we've ever had.

 

[Moonglow]

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.

Using taxpayer money to build bombers is ....Patriotism

Using taxpayer money to feed and house Americans is.......Socialism

That damn Irishman understood what could and would happen if the US chose guns over butter........

 

[Lonestar_logic]

RW conveniently forgets that Europe has depended on the US of A for defense since WW II.

Of course they don't spend money on defense. Why should they when they have America to defend them.

Its all those pesky treaties that we have.

Oh yeah. Walk softly and carry a big stick. It works quite well.

As for the poor in this country?? They aren't nor should they be anyones responsibility but their own. Let em get a job and stop sucking off the taxpayer tit.

In 2005, the typical household defined as poor by the government had a car and air conditioning. For entertainment, the household had two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR. If there were children, especially boys, in the home, the family had a game system, such as an Xbox or a PlayStation.[4] In the kitchen, the household had a refrigerator, an oven and stove, and a microwave. Other household conveniences included a clothes washer, clothes dryer, ceiling fans, a cordless phone, and a coffee maker.

What is Poverty in the United States Air Conditioning Cable TV and an Xbox

I assume it's about the same ten years later.

Can they afford healthcare, rent, education?

I would imagine they could, but they would have to sacrifice other conveniences. Healthcare has never really been an issue ever since Medicaid came along, education is free up to the 12th grade in every public school

Again you are talking free public services

I can also find functional color TVs, VCRs, Microwaves and Xboxes on the side of the road

I'm sure the poor acquired all their entertainment equipment on the side of the road.

You liberals are the dumbest of the dumb. Face it, you got schooled once again.

 

[Hossfly]

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 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 is, I repeat, 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. … Is there no other way the world may live?
Great speech by a great President.

Funny he said nothing about drone strikes.

Why would he say that?

CROSS OF IRON
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...
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.

From the Chance for Peace address delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953. (Regarded as one of the finest speeches of Eisenhower's presidency.)

Still true 60 years later

Yes it's true but Eisenhower was speaking in the context that it was because of dictators like Hitler, Stalin, Mao et al that we were forced to buy armaments to stay ahead of the fuckers. Eisenhower was a soldier and he learned that at West Point. They don't just study and teach war.

 

[Conservative65]

RW conveniently forgets that Europe has depended on the US of A for defense since WW II.

Of course they don't spend money on defense. Why should they when they have America to defend them.

Its all those pesky treaties that we have.

Oh yeah. Walk softly and carry a big stick. It works quite well.

As for the poor in this country?? They aren't nor should they be anyones responsibility but their own. Let em get a job and stop sucking off the taxpayer tit.

In 2005, the typical household defined as poor by the government had a car and air conditioning. For entertainment, the household had two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR. If there were children, especially boys, in the home, the family had a game system, such as an Xbox or a PlayStation.[4] In the kitchen, the household had a refrigerator, an oven and stove, and a microwave. Other household conveniences included a clothes washer, clothes dryer, ceiling fans, a cordless phone, and a coffee maker.

What is Poverty in the United States Air Conditioning Cable TV and an Xbox

I assume it's about the same ten years later.

Can they afford healthcare, rent, education?

I would imagine they could, but they would have to sacrifice other conveniences. Healthcare has never really been an issue ever since Medicaid came along, education is free up to the 12th grade in every public school

Again you are talking free public services

I can also find functional color TVs, VCRs, Microwaves and Xboxes on the side of the road

I'm sure the poor acquired all their entertainment equipment on the side of the road.

You liberals are the dumbest of the dumb. Face it, you got schooled once again.

The poor are able to buy those types of things with money they say they don't have because someone else is forced to buy their food and clothe their kids.