Shipbuilding
"Is it worth it?
A new winter coat and shoes for the wife
And a bicycle on the boy's birthday
It's just a rumour that was spread around town
By the women and children
Soon we'll be shipbuilding
Well I ask you
The boy said, "Dad they're going to take me to task
But I'll be back by Christmas"
It's just a rumour that was spread around town
Somebody said that someone got filled in
For saying that people get killed in
The result of this shipbuilding"
- Elvis Costello
@Geri
A shocking experience some years ago:
At a public meeting with parliamentary candidates, a question was asked about closing the town's arms factory, which made landmines and torture equipment. The Labour candidate was against it. "It's people's jobs!"
I wondered how hungry and cold my children would have to be before I would take such a job. No. Couldn't. I'd find another way.
Strange none of them considered re-tooling the factory. No demand for ploughshares? (Biblical ref)
"Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears."
Totts
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