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<blockquote data-quote="RugersGR8" data-source="post: 2020365" data-attributes="member: 56">Two items from President Dwight Eisenhower&#039;s Farewell address that are pertinent today: 1. Used by the left to bash American business/industry: &quot;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.&quot; 2. Used by the left to promote their agenda of GW, CC, no fracking/frac&#039;ing of oil/gas wells, etc (Same Ike Farewell address, just a little further down into the address): &quot;Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RugersGR8, post: 2020365, member: 56"] [SIZE=3]Two items from President Dwight Eisenhower's Farewell address that are pertinent today: [/SIZE] [B]1. Used by the left to [U]bash[/U] American business/industry:[/B] [I] "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the [B]military-industrial complex[/B]. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." [/I] [B]2. Used by the left to [U]promote[/U] their agenda of GW, CC, no fracking/frac'ing of oil/gas wells, etc (Same Ike Farewell address, just a little further down into the address):[/B] [I] "Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the [B]captive of a scientific-technological elite[/B]."[/I] [/QUOTE]

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