Monday, December 7, 2009

Comment

Albert Pike (1809 - 1891) writing on the allocation of National Resources:

Treasures are expended, that would suffice to build ten thousand churches, hospitals, and universities, or rib and tie together a continent with rails of iron. If that treasure were sunk into the sea, it would be calamity enough; but it is put to worse use, for it is expended in cutting into the veins and arteries of human life, until the earth is deluged with a sea of blood.


We (the United States) spend more on these wars and on our military defense budget today than all other counteries in the world combined.

1 comment:

Ur-spo said...

such madness; it reminds me of the Spanish empire before it went broke.