Posted on 04/16/2018 11:00:10 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
(What follows is from Eisenhower's 1961 Farewell Address -Wikipedia)
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense. We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net income of all United States corporations.
Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence—economic, political, even spiritual—is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.[1] (END)
Eisenhower's warning IN THAT LAST SENTENCE echoed the words of Jefferson some 174 years earlier: “We have the greatest opportunity the world has ever seen, as long as we remain honest — which will be as long as we can keep the attention of our people alive. If they once become inattentive to public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors would all become wolves.” Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787. ME 6:58 (We have met the enemy and he is US! Now you know HOW WE GOT HERE!)
Wow!
You’re the author of Eisenhower’s farewell address?
That’s amazing, I’d be pretty proud of that.
While we watch our country being colonized by Spanish speaking people from south of the border.
National security starts with border security.
In the era of Hollywood, Facebook, fake news, etc constantly barraging our short sighted, ADD, God-banning, voyeuristic populace with their ideology of how society should be, I fear that there is no return from the downward spiral of morals and values that was once a staple of this great nation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LWPcEo2gV0
Oh the days when a U.S. president could quote the Psalms, knowing nearly every American would get it. How many idiot Millennials would get his “swords” and “plowshares” reference at all?
There are a few of us who would.
Those of us who would are less than impressed with the boomers who didn’t listen to Ike...
Suggest a visit to Lens Crafters. Your vision sucks!
Negative, Dick.
You have listed yourself as the author.
Self ^ | 4/16/2018 | Dick Bachert
See where you it says "Dick Bachert"?
That's the box that asks for the author.
You put that in there yourself.
So you're claiming to be the author, right?
Author of the FR POST. C’mon, dude. You MUST have some liberals in your orbit you need to educate.
Author of the FR POST. C’mon, dude. You MUST have some liberals in your orbit you need to educate.
Well.. no, Dick.
That happens automatically.
You claimed to be the author of the material.
That does NOT happen automatically, you had to add that yourself.
And here I was all proud of you and everything for authoring
Eisenhower's farewell address and you disappoint me by being a liar.
I'm saddened by this cruel deception you have wrought.
Why must you LIE like that, Dick?
Thanks for the post;
Here’s the link to the entire speech:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwightdeisenhowerfarewell.html
Eisenhower made excellent points about 1. the military establishment and arms industry, and 2. technological inventions
“Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
“Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. “
So, Dick...
You’re kind of like those folks who claim to be Napoleon
or George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. Except YOU wrote
Eisenhower’s farewell speech.
Are there any other historical events for which you are responsible?
Did you write the Declaration of Independence?
The Magna Carta?
How about the Bible, Dick?
Didja write that too?
bump
He read a Mad Magazine
is that bad ?
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