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Stuart G

(38,434 posts) Mon Sep 8, 2014, 05:18 PM Sep 2014

Hard to believe, but a Republican president said the following about guns and warships..

"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." DWIGHT D EISENHOWER, speech April 16, 1953:

and...........my guess is, he really did see what war was all about...

Quite a long time ago, and you will never hear that from any Republican today...

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Hard to believe, but a Republican president said the following about guns and warships.. (Original Post) Stuart G Sep 2014 OP

Non many dems, either KG Sep 2014 #1

not. i agree. grahamhgreen Sep 2014 #18

Eisenhower was absolutely right. hifiguy Sep 2014 #2

So, He warned us about "War" and the "Military Industrial Complex"..why haven't we heard? Stuart G Sep 2014 #5

The Chance for Peace... DreamGypsy Sep 2014 #3

Last good Republican president Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2014 #4

The GOP is about what is good for the one percenters now. lpbk2713 Sep 2014 #6

But I cannot believe that those who are told to go to hell, Stuart G Sep 2014 #7

That's something I'll never understand. lpbk2713 Sep 2014 #8

Another great quote, over 100 years ago GarColga Sep 2014 #9

Welcome to DU GarColga..thanks for your post on T. Roosevelt..nt Stuart G Sep 2014 #10

Welcome to DU! n/t Mugu Sep 2014 #11

He had experience with it Man from Pickens Sep 2014 #12

One of my all-time favorite quotes. I like IKE! (My first president.) joanbarnes Sep 2014 #13

P.S. Some holier than thou, 'HTT' family members cannot stand this, food for poor instead of guns!!! joanbarnes Sep 2014 #14

The ancient Greeks said this, not much ever changes with truth, just the wording and language. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #15

Republicans once had people like Eisenhower ,Ed Brooke, Jacob Javis KinMd Sep 2014 #16

And of course, there was Everett Dirksen Art_from_Ark Sep 2014 #17

KG

(28,751 posts)

1. Non many dems, either

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 05:26 PM

Sep 2014

grahamhgreen

(15,741 posts)

18. not. i agree.

Reply to KG (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 9, 2014, 12:34 AM

Sep 2014

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

2. Eisenhower was absolutely right.

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 05:33 PM

Sep 2014

He warned us about the MIC, as well.

And no one paid attention.

Stuart G

(38,434 posts)

5. So, He warned us about "War" and the "Military Industrial Complex"..why haven't we heard?

Reply to hifiguy (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 06:16 PM

Sep 2014

Look at what this country spends on war..and the military.
So many have said so much here at DU. And so often....

DreamGypsy

(2,252 posts)

3. The Chance for Peace...

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 06:05 PM

Sep 2014

...Eisenhower's peace initiative, addressed to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, in Washington D.C., shortly after the death of Joseph Stalin.

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. 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.

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.

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,025 posts)

4. Last good Republican president

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 06:08 PM

Sep 2014

lpbk2713

(42,759 posts)

6. The GOP is about what is good for the one percenters now.

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 06:19 PM

Sep 2014

All others can go to hell as far as they are concerned.

Stuart G

(38,434 posts)

7. But I cannot believe that those who are told to go to hell,

Reply to lpbk2713 (Reply #6)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 07:01 PM

Sep 2014

still vote for these current assholes...

Eisenhower in the OP, said basically, war hurts the poor and those in need, these current Republicans, basically say, "Screw the Poor and those who support them, all that support them, and let's go to war for the rich..and powerful.

lpbk2713

(42,759 posts)

8. That's something I'll never understand.

Reply to Stuart G (Reply #7)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 07:07 PM

Sep 2014

Time after time, people will continue to vote against their own interests.

I just don't get it.

GarColga

(124 posts)

9. Another great quote, over 100 years ago

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 07:08 PM

Sep 2014

In 1912 Theodore Roosevelt quit the Republican Party and formed the short-lived Progressive Party (aka Bullmoose Party).

"To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."

1912 Progressive Party Platform, attributed to Theodore Roosevelt

Stuart G

(38,434 posts)

10. Welcome to DU GarColga..thanks for your post on T. Roosevelt..nt

Reply to GarColga (Reply #9)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 07:12 PM

Sep 2014

Mugu

(2,887 posts)

11. Welcome to DU! n/t

Reply to GarColga (Reply #9)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 07:17 PM

Sep 2014

Man from Pickens

(1,713 posts)

12. He had experience with it

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 07:32 PM

Sep 2014

It's amazing how having firsthand experience with something often forbids extreme positions one way or another. "Guns or Butter" used to be a central question of statecraft, up until the point where they figured out they could charge BOTH to the "future generations will pay it" credit card.