Even as it is slashes away at Medicaid, food stamps and healthcare for children, Donald Trump's budget plan calls for a $52 billion increase in defense spending and a $1.6 billion allocation for his completely unnecessary border wall.

President Eisenhower would have opposed Donald Trump's "kill the poor" budget plan.

So why won't today's Republicans?

It is exactly what REPUBLICAN President Dwight D Eisenhower warned us about in his 1953 "Cross of Iron" 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 in 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 pavement.

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."

Wasn't Eisenhower right?

Isn't this budget a kind of theft?

-Thom


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