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PoliticAverse

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3. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, .... signifies in the final sense, a theft...

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Fri Mar 23, 2012, 10:19 AM

Mar 2012

“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 clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/23920.Dwight_D_Eisenhower

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The Insanity Of U.S. Military Spending In One Chart [View all] Playinghardball Mar 2012 OP

not only that, imagine if all the countries spent the money on their people, not on the war machine niyad Mar 2012 #1

We have the world's most expensive military...and still can't win a war. Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2012 #2

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, .... signifies in the final sense, a theft... PoliticAverse Mar 2012 #3

it's almost as if we'e expecting the entire rest of the world to attack us or something.... n/t yodermon Mar 2012 #4

Quality of life - for both human and non-human life - around the entire earth sad sally Mar 2012 #5

It's not insanity, it's organized crime. Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2012 #6

we must guard against bart95 Mar 2012 #7

We have no reason to fight any war right now. Initech Mar 2012 #8

Oh, the joys of living in a RW society: all societal good, including public health and the indepat Mar 2012 #9