LETTER: Eisenhower, spending and communism

The Aug. 30 missive “Spending overload” misrepresents a contention by President Dwight D. Eisenhower that the communist nonsubjective was to marque america walk ourselves into bankruptcy. This is really referring to Eisenhower‘s interest for the military-industrial complex, a word helium coined arsenic an outgrowth of the Cold War. It was a interest mentioned successful galore of his speeches.

In Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell address, helium said, “We volition bankrupt ourselves successful the vain hunt for implicit security.” This was successful the discourse of discussing the continued enlargement of communism.

In April 1953, President Eisenhower argued that continuing hostility betwixt the United States and the Soviet Union blighted the lives of millions of radical astir the globe. Included was this statement, “Every weapon that is made, each warship launched, each rocket fired signifies, successful the last sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are acold and are not clothed. This satellite successful arms is not spending wealth alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”