> I took "building missiles instead of baking bread" to be a righteous
> American's denunciation of the Commies who couldn't even feed their
> own people decently, but poured money into military technology.
Of course. The political cliche of the time was "guns or butter," and LBJ's claim that we could have both. I remember my father's bitter response to our exporting wheat to the USSR then while raising the price of bread at home. Compare North Korea today, or certain budget proposals to increase military spending (for programs the Pentagon doesn't even want) while cutting food stamps?
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