Can America do this in areas where violence is high? Say, Baltimore?
Just raze it with bombs and drop in high end developments?
(This is a rhetorical question)
Just raze it with bombs and drop in high end developments?
(This is a rhetorical question)
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@threalist @YoungBlood Reminds me of early 00s antiwar propaganda.
>WE BUILT SCHOOLS, ROADS, DAMS, POWERPLANTS, AND FIXED ALL KINDS OF THINGS IN IRAQ. CAN THE US ARMY INVADE AMERICA AND FIX OUR CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE!? HYUCK HYUCK HYUCK!!!
>WE BUILT SCHOOLS, ROADS, DAMS, POWERPLANTS, AND FIXED ALL KINDS OF THINGS IN IRAQ. CAN THE US ARMY INVADE AMERICA AND FIX OUR CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE!? HYUCK HYUCK HYUCK!!!
@threalist @YoungBlood Eisenhower had a lot to say about this. Too bad his policy didn't match his rhetoric. 1953 speech:
>Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final 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 laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is necessary to keep this up for years to come, for we are in a period of military preparation as I have said before.
Farewell speech 1961:
>Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we-you and I, and our government-must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
>Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final 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 laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is necessary to keep this up for years to come, for we are in a period of military preparation as I have said before.
Farewell speech 1961:
>Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we-you and I, and our government-must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.