Funny, I as having a conversation about this with someone the other day.  While I'm pro-military, I would love to see us take a relevant portion of this money and use it towards funding academic (not commercial) medical research.  Then take the results and share them with the world.  Take another relevant portion and focus on resource and agricultural stewardship.  Lather, rinse, repeat.

It has been proven time and again that healthy, prosperous people are a lot less likely to start some shit.

Ike wrote:

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.  It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system -- ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.

Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

Fucking socialist swine...

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