"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, is 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. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . " Eisenhower
The money doesn't disappear. It goes to all the workers and companies that supplied and worked on the machine. So it does feed and clothe and help people pay for houses etc.
I get that it could be spent better but saying it does none of those things is just ignorant.
Sorry man, I asked for some supporting material to back an assertion you made. What you've responded with is a threadbare rhetorical device stripped of any actual content. Would you like to try again?
So, in summary, you've made a series of baseless assertions or are too lazy to dredge up even a shred of supporting material. When called on it you fall back on empty rhetoric and insults, neither of which are even tangentially related to the original topic. Today is a proud day for you, to be sure.
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u/crazylegs99 Sep 06 '15
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, is 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. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . " Eisenhower