Quote I came across

From General Eisenhower,

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 labourers, 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. We pay for a single fighter 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 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.

 I work in defense, but wholly agree with the General, and President, and one day hopefully I will work myself out of a job by reducing the costs to a point where the military industrial complex cannot make the profits necessary to sustain the business. We use multimillion dollar bombers and helicopters to destroy huts in third world nations, use taxpayer dollars to pay tribal leaders, sheiks and despots instead of building schools or creating an electric generator. Think about it, instead of buying a bomber we gave the cost of a single bomber in buildings to northern Afghanistan?  Where would the suicide bombers come from? If they have a job, are educated, and have a future...why would anyone strap a vest full of explosives on and ride a bike into a bunch of children? 

 Just food for thought..