Eisenhower: throwin' bows from fifty years ago

Almost 50 years ago to the day, President Eisenhower gave this address in his farewell to the nation:



That day, Eisenhower coined the phrase 'Military Industrial Complex'. Now we've all heard this term (most likely a lot these days), but lets break it down a bit:



Fast forwarding to the present:



"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. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
-President Eisenhower-

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