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“The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals...We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower In other news: the US House just passed $1.15 trillion #military budget. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-passes-115-trillion-defense-spending-bill/ar-AA28ty0A