See if you can identify the bleeding heart liberal who said this:
"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 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."
Noam Chomsky? Michael Moore? Bernie Sanders?
Nope, it was that unrepentant lefty, five-star general Dwight Eisenhower, in 1953, just a few months after taking office — a time when the economy was booming and unemployment was 2.7 percent.
Yet today, while America’s economy sputters down the road to recovery and the middle class struggles to make ends meet — with over 26 million people unemployed or underemployed and record numbers of homes being lost to foreclosure — the "guns vs. butter" argument isn’t even part of the national debate. Of course, today, the argument might be more accurately framed as "ICBM nukes, Predator drones, and missile defense shields vs. jobs, affordable college, decent schools, foreclosure prevention, and fixing the gaping holes in our social safety net."
Arianna Huffington: Guns vs. Butter 2010
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