Patriotism and History

[Carl Remick]

>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
>Max Sawicky wrote:
> >
> > Even the WRL couldn't juke the number up past $600 or so.
> > Five trillion basically says 'you may stop reading here.'
> >
>
>He said "national security state" didn't he? That would include all
>police agencies, prisons, courts, State Department, Justice Dept.,
>various other sectors of national, state, & local government. I don't
>know how it would add up, but it would be fairly large. Also some
>university departments (e.g., criminal justice departments).
>
>He may have included all government employees, which would be quit
>wrong.
>
>In any case, the figure by itself is pretty meaningless.
>
>Carrol

Yes, on a cost-benefit basis it would seem we have gotten absolutely zilch 
national security for all the billions we've spent -- whatever the exact 
number may be -- on glitzy weaponry.  Plus, there's the principle of the 
damn thing -- e.g., Eisenhower's "Chance for Peace" address of 1953: "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."

Carl

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