President Eisenhower and President Kennedy Understood What Most Americans Do Not
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Only days before leaving office, in his Farewell Speech Eisenhower named those he believed responsible for the policies that would someday endanger America 's liberties and render this once wealthy nation financially insolvent.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
…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 .
Less than fifty years after Eisenhower uttered those prophetic words, America 's patrimony is gone and its future mortgaged beyond its ability to repay. His words were heard but not heeded-not then or since. It cannot be said that America wasn't warned. It can and will be said that America didn't listen.
WHO RULES AMERICA
It is no coincidence that Eisenhower waited until three days before leaving office to warn America about the US military-industrial complex. A military man himself, Eisenhower felt it necessary to warn the country of the unwarranted influence and intrusion of military and industrial [ sic business] interests that were then colluding to hijack the future liberties and prosperity of America.

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