tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24213446.post3078287342308755770..comments2024-03-24T06:12:51.173-05:00Comments on jobsanger: MissilesTed McLaughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15035498835671628943noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24213446.post-90950137046167669872015-12-17T10:22:42.384-06:002015-12-17T10:22:42.384-06:00Every gun that is made, every warship launched, ev...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.<br /><br />It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.<br /><br />The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.<br /><br />It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.<br /><br />It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.<br /><br />We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.<br /><br />We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.<br /><br />This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. 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.<br /><br />- Dwight D. Eisenhower<br />Racer Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02812393490896656818noreply@blogger.com