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Without a good economy, there is no security.

Terrorism kills thousands.

A bad econcomy kills/disables millions and disables our country and our military.

By that logic WWII should never have been fought.

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By that logic WWII should never have been fought.

Those John Wayne movies were really good, but they do not delve deep enough to give you an appreciation of what led to WWII. The economic collapse happened first; then the bullets and bombs started flying; then the economic crisis was "fixed".

Here is a little on-line classic for you: http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/keynes/peace

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446 - "A bad econcomy kills/disables millions and disables our country and our military.
By that logic WWII should never have been fought."

A bad economy and runaway inflation created Hitler. (I have a postage stamp for 3 billion marks), and caused him to purge millions of Jews, and caused WWII.

The lack of oil and steel (bad economy) caused the Japenese to expand and and start WWII in Asia, killing millions.

A bad economy caused Stalin to purge millions of Kulaks.

A bad economy caused the starvation of hundreds of thousands perhaps millions in Asia/india - before the Green revolution.

Mao Tse Tung killed millions in China because of the bad economy.

Bad economies in Africa are currently killing millions.

Have you ever been to a country where the people are so poor they steal your letter before the stamp is cancelled to steal your stamp, because they are so poor? I have.

Bad economies kill millions, and when we in the US have to get involved, we lose thousands and hundreds of thousands.