Whom ever has the next coherent plan to put the freaking HMOs in their place, stop the export of American jobs to low contract bidders in India and China, stop the flow of illegals into the county (Hello! Giving them a semi-legal status ain't gonna stop em, more like putting out a Welcome mat...), and somehow get private colleges to bring tuition costs down gets my vote.
btw: btw: Didn't Truman warn against the Military-Industrial complex? Have we bothered to heed this advice at all???
Eisenhower (Republican and five star general. In farewell speech. He is up there among my favorite president alone for that remark with that background) and no.
What Eisenhower was referring to was a military-industrial complex, like a napoleonic complex, a compulsion or impulse. He didn't mean a physical complex like a base or the Pentagon building.
What Eisenhower was referring to was a military-industrial complex, like a napoleonic complex, a compulsion or impulse. He didn't mean a physical complex like a base or the Pentagon building.
If your not joking then you are wrong:
what Eisenhower meant was the mutually supportive economic and interest based web of industry and military goals that would, due to their manifold interlocking dependancies, create a need for further spending which would then create a need for further military which would create a need for further spending etc etc
The complex was the Industry and the military and the political lobby and the populace which then became dependant upon outrageous spending and hyped up hype in order to keep the basic civil economy running smoothly:
what he was describing was a viciouse circle with no single area that could be analyzed: in other words a whole vast complex of inter-dependencies that would grow to encompass all civil life and overshadow even our daily economic exchanges.
a Rocket state*
--read Gravity's Rainbow -Thomas Pynchon, for a poetic and masterful take on the rise of new power complex
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Originally posted by Crusader
Whom ever has the next coherent plan to put the freaking HMOs in their place, stop the export of American jobs to low contract bidders in India and China, stop the flow of illegals into the county (Hello! Giving them a semi-legal status ain't gonna stop em, more like putting out a Welcome mat...), and somehow get private colleges to bring tuition costs down gets my vote.
Sounds like you ought to vote for Kucinich.
Cheers
Scott
Originally posted by thegelding
time will tell
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God. That says it all. Doesn't it?
Originally posted by Crusader
btw: btw: Didn't Truman warn against the Military-Industrial complex? Have we bothered to heed this advice at all???
Eisenhower (Republican and five star general. In farewell speech. He is up there among my favorite president alone for that remark with that background) and no.
What Eisenhower was referring to was a military-industrial complex, like a napoleonic complex, a compulsion or impulse. He didn't mean a physical complex like a base or the Pentagon building.
Originally posted by BuonRotto
slightly off topic:
What Eisenhower was referring to was a military-industrial complex, like a napoleonic complex, a compulsion or impulse. He didn't mean a physical complex like a base or the Pentagon building.
If your not joking then you are wrong:
what Eisenhower meant was the mutually supportive economic and interest based web of industry and military goals that would, due to their manifold interlocking dependancies, create a need for further spending which would then create a need for further military which would create a need for further spending etc etc
The complex was the Industry and the military and the political lobby and the populace which then became dependant upon outrageous spending and hyped up hype in order to keep the basic civil economy running smoothly:
what he was describing was a viciouse circle with no single area that could be analyzed: in other words a whole vast complex of inter-dependencies that would grow to encompass all civil life and overshadow even our daily economic exchanges.
a Rocket state*
--read Gravity's Rainbow -Thomas Pynchon, for a poetic and masterful take on the rise of new power complex