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- From: muttiah@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah)
- Subject: Re: The future
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.234509.20540@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:45:09 GMT
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- In article <9279@arccs1.fed.FRB.GOV> m1pkd00@fed.frb.gov (Prasad K. Dharmasena) writes:
- >
- >Ranjan S Muttiah <muttiah@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu!muttiah> said:
- >
- >> This stupid shit about spending a big chunk of money
- >> when there's not enough food to feed people is an outrage. I can think of
- >> people dying of diseases, but because of political human "insects" ? That's
- >> un "imaginable".
- >
- >Which reminds me ...
- >
- >Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
- >signifies in the finals sense, a theft from those who hunger and are
- >not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms
- >is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laboreres,
- >the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not
- >a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is
- >humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- > -- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
-
- Gee, thanks. I knew that somebody must have plagiarized and used almost
- the same words that I did! :-). However, I was thinking very, very
- specifically about Sri Lanka. The latest tragedy is that the sick of
- Jaffna have to be taken by bullock carts for 7 miles to the nearest
- functional hospital in case of emergencies. Could you imagine that these
- half ass and $%%^ed up politicians could denigrate people to such levels
- (it doesn't matter if that be Tamil, Sinhalese, or Muslims -- I tend to think
- of the latter as the most patriotic of the three!).
-