The Military issue does not go away like the election

For years I've been pointing out how large our military budget is, compared to other countries, and over the last two months I've written several pieces concentrating on that issue, and that issue alone. I had planned on posting President Eisenhower's farewell speech from 1961 about ten days before the election and then some bitch named Sandy hammered the east coast and made everything else seem trivial.

This speech that you are about to hear is from one of the greatest military heroes in United States history.

I'm truly not sure how great a President he was because it was simply a great decade to be alive.

Anybody could have done a good job during the birth of rock and roll and the presence of a young Elvis.  Television became a reality in the 50's and because of Elvis and TV, everything else just fell into place....even that small burp in Korea didn't diminish the glow of the 50's.

I'm well aware of the racial inequities that existed during that time period but being a young white teenager in Southern California I actually had no concept of race problems.  All the sports teams had black stars so as far as I was concerned THERE WAS NO PROBLEM.

Racial inequities in the 50's is a theme for another time.  The thing I want you to focus on is what Dwight D. Eisenhower told the American people as he left office.

(SIDE BAR.....HAVE YOU HEARD THIS?  NO REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE HAS WON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SINCE 1928 WITHOUT A NIXON OR A BUSH ON THE TICKET......1928!

READ THAT ONE MORE TIME!

It turns out that Romney made a big mistake by not picking Jeb Bush or Norm Nixon as his running mate.)

BACK TO IKE

LISTEN TO HIS WORDS VERY CAREFULLY AND THEN REMEMBER THAT WE SPEND $901 BILLION DOLLARS ON OUR DEFENSE BUDGET and that does not include the cost of our military endeavors (wars) around the globe.

A GENERAL AND A PRESIDENT WRAPPED INTO ONE TRYING TO WARN US AND US SEEMS TO BE TOTALLY IGNORING.

THE MILITARY ISSUE IS SO MUCH LARGER THAN THE ELECTION THAT MY BRAIN IS ABOUT TO
EXPLODE!

BOOM!

I've been taken out by a domestic drone courtesy of Fox news.

Those bastards!

Long live IKE......
Television and of course.....

ELVIS!

Go Trojans.

Michael Timothy McAlevey