Off Topic Guns vs. Butter

 

See if you can identify the bleeding heart liberal who said this:

""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 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."

Noam Chomsky? Michael Moore? Bernie Sanders?     (Not from URL (Wild
Billy? ) )

Nope, it was that unrepentant lefty, five-star general Dwight
Eisenhower, in 1953, just a few months after taking office -- a time
when the economy was booming and unemployment was 2.7 percent."

From  
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/guns-vs-butter-2010_b_5
48620.html>

--
   Bill   Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA
 

 

Bill who putters wrote:

For the Republican Party it has been a continuous push to the right
extreme. John Paul Stevens was a lifelong republican, imagine that now?

  The former party of small government is now to pushing toward the Tea
Party belief of no government. Arguably George W Bush did his best to
break government and generally succeeded.

Jeff

 


That's hilarious!  Bush presided over one of the hugest expansion of
government
in many administrations.  Only he did it in the interests of his
corporate masters,
not of the people he swore to serve.

 

Higgs Boson wrote:

Broken government can be the most expensive kind! It doesn't cost less
but it does less.

   Only he did it in the interests of his

   Agreed.

   Jeff

 

To Anzac Day

. . And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we sailed away from the quay . .
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

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