to the words of the republican president dwight eisenhower? "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." government is smart, you're stupid. we could devote an hour to wasteful military contracts throughout the years, but when the current pentagon is struggling against pork barrel kind of congressmen to cancel further production of c-17 transport planes which they already have in surplus and needs no more of, that pretty much says it all. to be fair, mr. gingrich cited y other items in calling mr. obama a socialist, like the bank bailout, and this health care reform thing of obama's. but in the modern era, the greatest redistribution of income, especially the specialty of socialists, was in fact produced by president reagan. redistribution from the middle and lower classes to the upper class. and the reason bank bailout, of course, began under president