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I posted this to another global warming related thread yesterday, but think it bears repeating. The left is always eager to quote Eisenhower's farewell address when it comes to, "the military industrial complex;" however, that was only one of two growing concerns Ike specifically identified in that speech. The second was the growing influence on public policy of, "the scientific-technological elite," which is precisely what has unfolded with the whole climate change/global warming boogeyman. From Ike's address...

"Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central, it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded.

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."

Somehow this part of Eisenhower's address never quite makes it into the leftist mantra. I suggest that every time a leftist pulls out the "military industrial complex" we need to slap them right back with (apologies to Paul Harvey)...the rest of the story....