Ronald Reagan

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Originally Posted by randolph

As we have heard many times over the years, President Eisenhower warned us about the development of a military industrial complex. The "cold war" got it started, then Korea then Viet Nam and then Reagan's starwars greatly enhanced military spending. Now it dominates our entire economy. It did not defend us against terrorists attacks, it can't win a war in Afganistan, yet the spending is sacrosanct especially among Republicans. The conservatives rant about government spending but say little about the military. Probably 10% of the military budget would provide us the worlds finest healthcare system. Over 50% of government spending is military related!
When are Americans going to wake up!

For one thing, Reagan's Star Wars program was to dupe the russians into thinking we were spending much more than we actually were in order to get them to spend as well and push their economy over the edge. But aside from that, if you were president, and you saw the type of military build up the russians were engaged in after the Cuban Missile crisis during the cold war, what would you do?