Defense Spending in Reagan Years
During the Reagan years welfare was transferred from the needy to the greedy (defense industry). The weapons produced were indeed deadly and injurious, not to our enemies but to our own military.
It is ironic that President Reagan did not heed the warning by President Eisenhower in his farewell address to the nation about the military-industrial complex in this country.
JOSEPH RODRIGUEZ, Newbury Park
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