“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.”
• Eisenhower, 1953
I’d much rather have a National Healthcare system.
We have money for war, not prosperity
Sweet
It’s actually only 3% of the US GDP.
Now do our biggest expenditures like social services.
Haaaaa! U just dont see what they are shooting at! They need targets and i mean tax payer expensive fast moving targets.
Peace ain’t cheap baby
Hell, we really like to blow shit up! And we could blow up even more shit, build more weapons and build even smarter weapons if the rich fat cats would stop rigging the system and start paying their taxes! We would even have money left over to balance the budget, fix our roads, feed every child, have better health care and fight inflation.
it cost $13,000 to fire that gun for 4 seconds…
It looks like Shrek at first
I get the point of the post, but is the alternative that we don’t have a well-trained, well-practiced, state of the art military?
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“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.”
• Eisenhower, 1953
I’d much rather have a National Healthcare system.
We have money for war, not prosperity
Sweet
It’s actually only 3% of the US GDP.
Now do our biggest expenditures like social services.
Haaaaa! U just dont see what they are shooting at! They need targets and i mean tax payer expensive fast moving targets.
Peace ain’t cheap baby
Hell, we really like to blow shit up! And we could blow up even more shit, build more weapons and build even smarter weapons if the rich fat cats would stop rigging the system and start paying their taxes! We would even have money left over to balance the budget, fix our roads, feed every child, have better health care and fight inflation.
it cost $13,000 to fire that gun for 4 seconds…
It looks like Shrek at first
I get the point of the post, but is the alternative that we don’t have a well-trained, well-practiced, state of the art military?