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

[Dana7360]

I'd say as much experience as Eisenhower

You also get the chapped lips of the year award for how much ass you kiss.

Obama couldn't shine Eisenhower's boots when it comes to military experience.

Who said anything about Obama?

It was Eisenhower who made the quote in the OP. Seems he would know more about the subject than anyone else....won't you agree

I'd say as much experience as Eisenhower

You also get the chapped lips of the year award for how much ass you kiss.

Obama couldn't shine Eisenhower's boots when it comes to military experience.

Who said anything about Obama?

It was Eisenhower who made the quote in the OP. Seems he would know more about the subject than anyone else....won't you agree

You should credit Eisenhower and actually put quotes around it if it is. Very misleading but not surprised from someone like you.

No one had to tell me who said those words when I read the OP.

Anyone who went to a public school in America from 1960 on has seen that film in class.

At least those who went to school when I went. We saw that film many times throughout our education.

Maybe they stopped showing it and teaching it in the reagan years.

I graduated from high school in 1978 so we were still getting something close to a complete education before reagan came along. I graduated from college in 1982 just as the destruction of public education was starting.

If you went to school in the 80s and after maybe they didn't have it as part of the curriculum on President Eisenhower.

But then a few years ago I ran into a cashier/clerk at a store who asked me "What's an Eisenhower?" I asked her where she went to school and she said she was home schooled.

Glad you realize public education has been destroyed. You can thank Jimmy Carter for that.

Sure you ran into that person.

No it wasn't in the Carter years. It started in the reagan years.

I remember it well.

 

[Dana7360]

The man couldn't even dress himself. He had a valet do it

I normally scroll right by your posts but this one caught my eye.

The man helped win WWII. He helped liberate Europe. He first had the responsibility for creating the major war plans to defeat Japan and Germany until June 1942. In June 1992 he became Commanding General, European Theater of Operations. In November of that year he was also appointed Supreme Commander Allied Expeditiory Forces of the North African Theater of Operations.

He planned Operation Overlord, the landing on Normandy Beach on D day.

He liberated concentration camps across Europe.

Dwight D. Eisenhower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

His resume/biography is very long. The above is just a very small portion of his accomplishments.

Every American and European on this earth have Dwight D. Eisenhower to thank for their freedom.

Yet all you can say was he couldn't dress himself?

Eisenhower died in 1969. How could be become Commanding General in 1992?

Sorry Typo. I meant 1942 but I know you knew that.

For a person who has a lot to say you don't have much of a valid point.

For a person that claims to be so smart, mistakes like that aren't made.

Maybe so but when a person has nerve damage in both their hands and arms, it's easy to make a typing mistake.I have nerve damage in both my hands and arms from a wave accident in 2009. When I was first pulled from the ocean I couldn't feel or move both of my hands and arms. I spent 4 solid years in physical therapy and occupational therapy and still have physical therapy off and on. I endured 3 surgeries. So making one little typo really doesn't bother me.

But thank you so much for pointing out that I still don't have full control of my hands and fingers.

However, pointing out such mistakes is just trying to change the subject from you not being very well educated and not knowing history very well.

What's your excuse for not knowing history and not being properly educated?

 

[Nosmo King]

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



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Sounds like Eisenhower as a prelude to his military-industrial complex warning.

 

[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

THat's a bogus number.

Our dominance discourages spending by both our allies AND many of our enemies.

Also, spending does not compare well from nation to nation.

Threats? Terrorists, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, off the top of my head.

None of those threats warrant 25% of our military spending

None are capable of engaging us on the land, sea or air

Sure they are. Terrorists hit US on 9-11, Russia has thousands of nukes aimed at US, the US has forces stationed in South Korea where they would be easily hit by North Korea and/or China.

Unbelievable how lame your fear mongering is

Totally clueless as to global threat

You asked, I answered.

What is the global threat in your opinion?

Famine

 

[OKTexas]

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

Do you think those bushels of wheat magically disappear, they are still in the market to feed people.

The first is the primary responsibility of the federal government, common defense.

The second is the primary responsibility of the states, individual welfare.

The left thinks the feds should be all things to all people, they're not.

 

[rdean]

Patton was a far better general and understood our true enemies better. He recognized the Soviet threat long before anyone...he also died for speaking out about it

Too fucking funny

Yeah you are...and complete moron. In fact your entire thread is moronic. You idiot when Eisenhower made that speech we were embroiled in the Korean War and he couldn't make it where he wanted to, in front of the UN due to that, he had to make it in front of the American Society of Newspaper Editors

He presents something as being made by THE President not A former President. There is a difference. Very misleading coming from someone known to say that this isn't the 1950s anymore and we can't live like we did then yet uses something from the 1950s.

We do not have the Soviet threat we had in the 53 when Eisenhower made the speech

In fact, today we have nowhere near the threat that Eisenhower faced

The Soviet Union was a country with defined borders. We knew our threat. Today, our greatest threat has no identifiable borders which makes it a greater one. Eisenhower handled the threats. The President today tries to appease those who threaten us.

That's ridiculous lying bullshit and you know it.

 

[Interpol]

Eisenhower, the last great Republican President.

Like most all of our heroes who have served in the military, they come back home and almost always stress that it's more of a manly achievement to avoid getting into wars than it is stumbling into them.

 

[2aguy]

When the Soviet Union fell, contrary to the belief system of many, defense spending fell and fell and kept falling.

It wasn't until we were horribly attacked that it went back up.

Hell, in Europe, protected by the powerful United States, average defense spending is from our European allies in NATO is running at 1.6%.

YOu remove immediate threats and First World democratic societies will be happy to spend the money elsewhere.

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

The next ten countries.....especially China, and Russia.....not to mention Iran, and isis...

 

[2aguy]

Eisenhower, the last great Republican President.

Like most all of our heroes who have served in the military, they come back home and almost always stress that it's more of a manly achievement to avoid getting into wars than it is stumbling into them.

And like many in the military they have socialism in their heart, even if they are tired of fighting......hence his comments....

 

[HenryBHough]

When the day comes that liberals are lined up waiting for the Muslim swordsman to give them a really close haircut they'll be thinking....

Thinking about how they'll kneel and look so very presidential!

 

[Hossfly]

Too fucking funny

Yeah you are...and complete moron. In fact your entire thread is moronic. You idiot when Eisenhower made that speech we were embroiled in the Korean War and he couldn't make it where he wanted to, in front of the UN due to that, he had to make it in front of the American Society of Newspaper Editors

He presents something as being made by THE President not A former President. There is a difference. Very misleading coming from someone known to say that this isn't the 1950s anymore and we can't live like we did then yet uses something from the 1950s.

We do not have the Soviet threat we had in the 53 when Eisenhower made the speech

In fact, today we have nowhere near the threat that Eisenhower faced

The Soviet Union was a country with defined borders. We knew our threat. Today, our greatest threat has no identifiable borders which makes it a greater one. Eisenhower handled the threats. The President today tries to appease those who threaten us.

That's ridiculous lying bullshit and you know it.

I see you're still smoking belly button lint

 

[2aguy]

This passage just shows that Ike didn't know much about economics or how things are made....every gun made is someones paycheck which feeds their families and the people they pay for the goods they need........

Ike...won the war...not very wise.......

 

[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

Do you think those bushels of wheat magically disappear, they are still in the market to feed people.

The first is the primary responsibility of the federal government, common defense.

The second is the primary responsibility of the states, individual welfare.

The left thinks the feds should be all things to all people, they're not.

The level of government is meaningless

It is the priorities of our society and the result of those priorities

 

[rightwinger]

This passage just shows that Ike didn't know much about economics or how things are made....every gun made is someones paycheck which feeds their families and the people they pay for the goods they need........

Ike...won the war...not very wise.......

That is a fallacy

The money spent on weapons is wasted. Those weapons provide no value to a society. Making weapons as "make work" to create jobs does little for society when you can use the same money to "make work" for roads, schools, hospitals....

 

[rightwinger]

When the Soviet Union fell, contrary to the belief system of many, defense spending fell and fell and kept falling.

It wasn't until we were horribly attacked that it went back up.

Hell, in Europe, protected by the powerful United States, average defense spending is from our European allies in NATO is running at 1.6%.

YOu remove immediate threats and First World democratic societies will be happy to spend the money elsewhere.

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

The next ten countries.....especially China, and Russia.....not to mention Iran, and isis...

Eight of those ten countries are our allies......UK, France, Germany, Japan

 

[BluesLegend]

So if we eliminate spending on weapons, planes, and ships then I get to keep even more of my money that I earned right, its not going to be redistributed to the freeloaders?

 

[Alex.]

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



.

Total fool. Does he not realize it takes a military to preserve our way of life. In doing so we insure that the hungry will be fed, the homeless provided shelter and people to speak freely.

Besides the fact the manufacturing and purchasing these armaments stimulates the economy.

 

[OKTexas]

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

Do you think those bushels of wheat magically disappear, they are still in the market to feed people.

The first is the primary responsibility of the federal government, common defense.

The second is the primary responsibility of the states, individual welfare.

The left thinks the feds should be all things to all people, they're not.

The level of government is meaningless

It is the priorities of our society and the result of those priorities

No the level of government is everything, your dear leader speaks on behalf of the federal government, he starts out like he's lecturing the world, then turns to bashing the US. His primary job is providing for the common defense of this country, you'd think after more than 6 years in office he would understand that. It cost a lot of money to have the precision munitions you liberals demand to reduce collateral damage, war is messy, trying to make it less so is very expensive, maybe it's your priorities that are screwed up.

 

[2aguy]

This passage just shows that Ike didn't know much about economics or how things are made....every gun made is someones paycheck which feeds their families and the people they pay for the goods they need........

Ike...won the war...not very wise.......

That is a fallacy

The money spent on weapons is wasted. Those weapons provide no value to a society. Making weapons as "make work" to create jobs does little for society when you can use the same money to "make work" for roads, schools, hospitals....

Who said they were make work.....you make weapons to deter enemies and to fight those who won't be deterred..........that isn't make work.......

ask the Ukranians if the guns they have we're make work.....

 

[2aguy]

When the Soviet Union fell, contrary to the belief system of many, defense spending fell and fell and kept falling.

It wasn't until we were horribly attacked that it went back up.

Hell, in Europe, protected by the powerful United States, average defense spending is from our European allies in NATO is running at 1.6%.

YOu remove immediate threats and First World democratic societies will be happy to spend the money elsewhere.

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

The next ten countries.....especially China, and Russia.....not to mention Iran, and isis...

Eight of those ten countries are our allies......UK, France, Germany, Japan

and all four were at one time our enemies.....