JFK's 1960 "Strategy of Peace": just wow

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1. "The Years the Locusts Have Eaten"

That's what JFK calls the Eisenhower-Nixon years in one section and that's what they were: a huge waste of opportunity and resources. And that's what the fabled "Republicans from the 1930s to the 1960s" gave the US, because that's what they're about: private profit, national defense, an aggressively hostile foreign policy, and let's not forget "national security," their big opportunity sector then and now. By way of example here's an excerpt on Locust-years education that suggests how screwed up the Wonder Years really were:

2. In Education, Science, and Research: The story under this {Ike-Nixon} Administration has been the same. We harassed our scientists. We overcrowded our schools. We cut back our research. We underpaid our teachers. We let brilliant students drop out after high school. The President would not support an adequate program to construct desperately needed classrooms, at either the public school or college level. . . . I am convinced that American education and American science, given the necessary funds and effort and leadership, can also work miracles -- miracles that could well surpass any the Russians have ever envisioned. (pp. 237-8).

Now, does that sound like a glorious Republican or that does it sound like a Democrat, then or now?