bobbyw24
06-21-2011, 09:50 AM
By Ellen Brown
"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 ... . We pay for a single fighter plane 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." - Dwight David Eisenhower, "The Chance for Peace"; speech given to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953.
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In a Wall Street Journal editorial on June 8 bemoaning the failure of the Barack Obama stimulus package, Martin Feldstein wrote:
Experience shows that the most cost-effective form of temporary fiscal stimulus is direct government spending. The most obvious way to achieve that in 2009 was to repair and replace the military equipment used in Iraq and Afghanistan that would otherwise have to be done in the future. But the Obama stimulus had nothing for the Defense Department.
You can't make this stuff up. The most obvious way to stimulate
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/MF22Dj02.html
"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 ... . We pay for a single fighter plane 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." - Dwight David Eisenhower, "The Chance for Peace"; speech given to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953.
http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/racket.jpg
In a Wall Street Journal editorial on June 8 bemoaning the failure of the Barack Obama stimulus package, Martin Feldstein wrote:
Experience shows that the most cost-effective form of temporary fiscal stimulus is direct government spending. The most obvious way to achieve that in 2009 was to repair and replace the military equipment used in Iraq and Afghanistan that would otherwise have to be done in the future. But the Obama stimulus had nothing for the Defense Department.
You can't make this stuff up. The most obvious way to stimulate
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/MF22Dj02.html