Comment on There's no money for education and health care but they'll always find some for war.

uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My only problem with this image is the money is being fed to a soldier, not a general or military political advisor, the people who end up with the real money.

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  • NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He’s wearing a gold cuirass

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think the “soldier” in the image represents exactly that, the MIC/War Machine, not just a soldier. I’ve seen this cartoon many times and always assumed the intent was the military soaking up tons of money.

    I will leave this quote from Eisenhower’s “A Chance For Peace” speech.

    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 are 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.

    The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.

    It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.

    It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.

    We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.

    We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

    This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking.

    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.

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    • Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ive never heard of this speech but very good read, thanks for sharing

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  • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This was USSR, so it is possible.

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