Military expenditure is theft from social needs, Eisenhower argued.

Evidence

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. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 654

Categorization

• XREF: Eisenhower’s guns-versus-butter speech grounds the chapter’s own educational-healthcare cost trade-off list; known material useful as shared frame.