When he said:
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain
search for absolute security.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
(source)
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That may be why most of the Republican presidents since Ike seem to have extended the thought with, "so, we might as well make ourselves and our friends filthy rich in the process."