2007-01-31 05:48:20 · 3 answers · asked by wmf936 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
It was in reference to the 'Great Society' programs of the LBJ presidency. It amounted to more government programs to reduce poverty (butter) and also finance the war in Vietnam (guns). What it gave us was runaway inflation, more consolidation of power in Washington and more American soldiers dead on a foreign battlefield that nobody really gave a damn about. Of course, the war was undertaken ostensibly to fight communist expansionism, but if that were really true, then why couldn't we fight it 90 miles away (in Cuba) instead of 9,000 miles away (Vietnam)?
2007-01-31 05:58:49 · answer #1 · answered by mikey 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a question of government budget priorities - defense or domestic spending.
It's asked by people who don't understand that to the greatest extent possible it shouldn't be the government deciding how to allocate $2TN between guns and butter, it should be each individual household deciding how to allocate $6,666 among whatever that household's priorities are.
2007-01-31 05:55:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
NEVER HEARD IT. BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE LYRICS FROM A RAP RECORD.
2007-01-31 05:52:46 · answer #3 · answered by strike_eagle29 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋