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To: Tublecane
Wars do not bring recovery. They are a huge waste of money.

True. But they are unrivaled at creating full employment, since the US pulled 12M men out of the workforce. The military then hauled a bunch of stuff to the other side of the world and blew it up there, so there was a good market for goods.

20 posted on 01/02/2009 6:12:01 PM PST by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: Sherman Logan

“True. But they are unrivaled at creating full employment”

That just goes to show what little connection there is between economic efficiency and “full employment”. The federal government could give every single unemployed citizen a job digging up and filling in holes, but what would be the point?


23 posted on 01/02/2009 6:17:39 PM PST by Tublecane
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