"Bill who putters" wrote in message
...
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/ariann...utter-2010_b_5
48620.html

--
Bill Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA


Military-industrial complex
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned the US about the
"military-industrial complex" in his farewell address.
Military-industrial complex (MIC) is a concept commonly used to refer to
policy relationships between governments, national armed forces, and the
industrial sector that supports them. These relationships include political
approval for research, development, production, use, and support for
military training, weapons, equipment, and facilities within the national
defense and security policy. It is a type of iron triangle.
The term is most often played in reference to the military of the United
States, where it gained popularity after its use in the farewell address
speech of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, though the term is applicable to
any country with a similarly developed infrastructure.
It is sometimes used more broadly to include the entire network of contracts
and flows of money and resources among individuals as well as institutions
of the defense contractors, The Pentagon, and the Congress and executive
branch. This sector is intrinsically prone to principal-agent problem, moral
hazard, and rent seeking. Cases of political corruption have also surfaced
with regularity.
A similar thesis was originally expressed by Daniel Guérin, in his 1936 book
Fascism and Big Business, about the fascist government support to heavy
industry. It can be defined as, "an informal and changing coalition of
groups with vested psychological, moral, and material interests in the
continuous development and maintenance of high levels of weaponry, in
preservation of colonial markets and in military-strategic conceptions of
internal affairs" [1]

http://goo.gl/Ds4N

All praise to Eisenhower, perhaps that ;ast sane president.

piedmont / mike