Has any Republican president since heeded the warning of Eisenhower??

Question

To "beware the military industrial complex"???

Nixon? Ford? Reagan? G.H.W. Bush? G.W. Bush??

Have Republican's failed to take to heart the advice of their most decorated, most honored, military-educated President??? And if so why do you think that is.... and how can we change this?

Answer 1

we are no where near a military industrial complex.  Study hitler, moussolini, napoleon, Qin s**+ Huang.  then you will get the idea of what a true military industrial complex is like.

Answer 2

There is no doubt that the Pentagon and its military-industrial complex of defense contractors is a fearsome special interest that affects national defense policy in many harmful ways just as President Eisenhower warned us so many years ago.

But the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex are only running a distant fourth place in the "fill-in-the-blank"-industrial complex stakes. Let us talk about the pension-industrial complex.  You can read a horror story about it every day, like this one about the  underfunded pensions of the State of New Jersey.  Did you know that the payment of pensions to government employees is guaranteed in the constitution of many states?  First things first.

Let us talk about the medical-industrial complex.  $750 billion is a lot of money for the government to spend on a highly regulated system that hits a mere #40 in the life expectancy world rankings published in The Economist's Pocket World in Figures 2007 Edition. Some out-of-the-box commentators think that it will soon enter critical condition as people opt for health tourism.

Let us talk about the education-industrial complex.  We spend $750 billion a year for that baby.  Yet literacy in the United States has not significantly changed in the 160 years since centralized government education began in the United States.  As I reported recently in  The American Thinker: 15 percent of US adults [today are rated] as "proficient" in literacy and 13 percent "proficient" in numeracy." That is according to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy.

In the current War on Terror, or clash of civilizations, we are being reminded that the war is a failure and that the Bush administration never had a plan in Iraq.  In fact our liberal friends feel that the failures in Iraq are sufficient reason to abandon the whole thing as Bush's fault and a dreadful mistake. Get out of a mistaken initiative.

Good point, liberals.  So why not ditch the whole mess of government pensions, government health care, and government education, bloody messes that eat up about $2.5 trillion a year, four times the budget of the Pentagon and 25 times the $100 billion a year cost of the Iraq mess?

Answer 3

Sorta makes one wonder why they NEVER MENTION the GOOD republicans like

Eisenhower and Teddy Roosevelt

Answer 4

I count 9 questions in there.  Which one do you want me to answer?

Answer 5

No they have been owned by the military industrial complex since Ike. he was the last honest republican president.

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

GEORGE WASHINGTON, Farewell Address, Sep. 17, 1796

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. … No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." James Madison

Answer 6

It was the Dems with LBJ that let the MIC do whatever they want.......to blame repubs only is ignoring evidence

Answer 7

because the democrats alway leave a huge mess to be cleaned up

Answer 8

While I do agree with you, LBJ did start the Vietnam war. But it was the Republicans who took the concept to sickening heights. Peace!

Answer 9

everybody seems to completely underestimate all the things that big lbj made happen in just one term. he opened pandora's box like no other president. his ego was awesome but he finally imploded toward the end and upon his return to texas.

Answer 10

Nope.

That's why his Granddaughter Susan Eisenhower is supporting Obama.

"Why I'm Backing Obama"

By Susan Eisenhower

Answer 11

none of them