THE LAST HONEST REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT

   Dwight D. Eisenhower was the supreme allied commander in Europe during WW2, he held the rank of Five-Star General, one of only a few men to ever attain that rank. He oversaw all military operations for not only the American troops, but all allied countries involved in the war. He was an extremely popular figure during the war and remained so after the war ended and he returned home.

   The people of America all knew him as "Ike." Ike was so loved and respected by the American people that the Republican party nominated Ike to run in the 1952 election. Ike went on to win not only in 1952, but in 1956 also.

   He served as President the same as he did in the military, with dignity and honor, keeping our nation strong and safe during some of the scariest times in history, with the cold war at its peak. Ike guided us through like the great leader he was. As Ike was handing the reigns of the nation over to the newly elected President, John F. Kennedy in 1960, he made a great speech on American progress, and sternly gave us all a very serious warning.

   This man who knew every detail on how a military is compiled, trained, equipped and run said that the biggest fear America faced was the ever-more powerful "military industrial complex." Ike had warned that if we did not keep this huge and highly influential entity under control then it wouldn't be long before they were in control.

   He watched their power and influence growing since the wars end, and he feared the worst from these greedy corporate war mongers. Ike knew that what motivated these corporations most was profit, and there was a lot of profit to be had by supplying the guns, bombs, and bullets the military used. And what better way to make sure that a demand for their products always existed, then to keep a perpetual conflict raging somewhere in the world.

   Along with the Pentagon, these corporations intertwined to create an atmosphere of fear in America. Fear that an impending enemy is at our doorstep and will attack and destroy both us, and our way of living unless we kept ever vigilant, ever prepared, regardless of the cost. That's how they controlled us then and that is how they still control us now.

   When the USSR ceased to exist in 1990, they needed to replace the fear of Communism they had been selling, and find a new reason for us to be scared, that reason became terrorism, and it seems to be doing its job just fine, this country is permeated with fear, and as long as were scarred, we will buy everything they're selling.

   These same corporations are now diversified into many fields today that will continue to route all power to the elite and to keep the masses in place, where they can control every aspect of our lives. Corporations like Halliburton, who not only supply the military with personnel and hardware, but own the largest share of private prisons in this country.

   Our nation spends more on defense than the next twenty countries combined! They can spend more than $400,000,000.00 on tanks the Army doesn't need or even want, yet they allow people to starve, children to die from lack of proper healthcare, cities forced to cut police and fire services.

    Those in power have had a firm grasp on the control of this nations wealth for a long time, and giving it up is not something they are prone to do very easily, but their selfish greedy nature will one day prove their downfall, and that day appears to be rapidly approaching.

   I don't see the GOP producing any solutions in the future, and the Democrats appear to be compromised as well, so it is left to us to speak out against the status quo and get things changed, we can do it, we just have to try.

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