Do you agree with what Eisenhower said?

Question

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Letter to Edgar Eisenhower, Nov 1954
http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/1147.cfm

Answer 1

Those were different times and different circumstances.

Answer 2

No, I agree with what C.S. Lewis said.....

"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods? The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's [of the same age] attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses? -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men." C. S. Lewis

Answer 3

Yes, almost all the people at millionairematch.com i knew think so although there are minority oppose. he was right about the "tiny splinter group" that is in fact today's GOP.

Answer 4

the government's job is to protect the people not to provide for the people, before welfare and social security people took care of other people in need but the morality of society has been diminishing ever since world war 2 ended. my grandfather told me when he was a kid he could pretty much go anywhere alone but now there are more pervs and murderers than ever before in our country. if people really cared they would help the needy with charity and stuff like that but people think welfare and social security and universal healthcare would solve all the country's problems. think about it if there is free healthcare do you think that your doctor would be as likely to give you good medical attention when he is not getting paid that much? that means that there is no incentive to work and more people will die from disease and stuff than if there wasnt healthcare

Answer 5

It seems that the splinter group has grown. They are called conservatives. Texas Oil millionaires (BUSH).

Answer 6

Yes, he was right about the "tiny splinter group" that is in fact today's GOP.

Answer 7

Dwight D. Eisenhower was a great American!:)

Answer 8

Yes!!!!!!!

Here's another....

"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." - Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 9

Unfortunely that spinter group got more brains over the years and got Bush elected!

Answer 10

Sure - this and his warning against the military industrial complex.