The only thing we make now is Weapons…
We have so hollowed out our industrial plant that the only thing we are now producing is weapons of war.
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If ever we needed evidence of the Cost of Empire, Floyd Norris’s scary chart of Durable Goods Production from the U.S. Economy is it.
We have so hollowed out our industrial plant that the only thing we are now producing is weapons of war. The great British Historian Arnold Toynbee’s theory about the decline of the Roman Empire has lessons for our current age.
I have only one question–Where is the national politician with the courage to say we no longer have to act as the unpaid policeman of the world?
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