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.
-The Chance for Peace speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
How far we have fallen. But . . .
What a surprise, the Epstein class continues to bill us to protect themselves from us.
The funny thing is they’ll never have enough prepared.
When an entire population turns on those in charge, they will never be capable of preventing the inevitable.
Like that will ever happen. Americans have shown they can’t even be bothered to show up in any meaningful numbers for one day on a weekend to protest. “Ooh I might lose my job if I protest. Wah! Wah! I just have to let it happen. Surely elections that let this happen in the first place are going to magically save us this time.” /s