As he was leaving office, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned us about the “military industrial complex.” Those guys are still around, but today’s version has an added player: the neo-conservatives.The latest ploy is a move to lock us in to a military budget that would be set by law at 4% of the Gross Domestic Product, which is the total value of all the goods and services this country produces. Obviously, the push behind this comes from the professionals in the Pentagon and the people who build weapons, aided and abetted by the far right.
To require us to spend that money, year after year after year, regardless of circumstaces or other greater priorities, is just nuts.
But you know what these people are calling this scam? “Four Percent for Freedom.”
Get it? If you don’t think this scheme is a good idea, well, by golly, you’re against freedom!
I guess that must mean Dwight Eisenhower was “anti-freedom”, too.
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