Posted on 07/22/2010 12:07:38 AM PDT by neverdem
See my tag line.
Except that for the case of WWII... we weren’t breaking *OUR* windows, but someone else’s.
Who then had to buy from *OUR* ready-made window shop a replacement window, because their own supplier was bombed out of existence. Of course, we lent him the money to do it, but we charged interest on that, as well.
It helped us quite a bit, after the war.
He’s also an utter and unabashed egomaniac.
Actually, I think he’s a sociopathic megalomaniac, personally...
its certainly OUR windows. It makes no difference if its in another country. Resources used to replace broken windows in another planet, means less resources for stuff to build in our own country
planet=country
“He runs on hate.”
Good observation. The hate he has for America will be returned ten-fold. Washington DC is under seige. My criminal senator can’t show his face in public without a platoon size praetorian guard surrounding him.
He runs on hate.
This thread has it, but our point has always been we are not dealing here with amateurs. They know how to manipulate the anaesthesized masses, just like Hollywood knows how to make a mass audience cry, laugh, rage, etc. despite the fact the entire production is phony.
And that to combat that will take extraordinary self-honesty, courage, integrity, and articulation. Qualities that simply do not show up in the Washington DC Republican Party resume. It is far far too late for realpolitik.
Should the GOP win in November they should refuse to fund all of Obama’s “accomplishments”. Then, in 2013, they should repeal all of his programs. Nothing is more important.
Talking about Obama’s failing regime is like talking about the Soviet Union’s failing regime. Both have failed completely. The USSR is gone and the Obama regime is still in the news, but that doesn’t change the fact that both are complete failures.
In FDR's day, people still had a work ethic, so at least some things were actually built. Nowadays, the money will just be spent on consumables.
The war saved us from FDR's economic programs that were even worse than war.
The Obama tax man still cometh.
There are those of us who believe that Obama's minions are ultimately capable of *anything*, and the further one is from them the better.
Additionally, I wouldn't want to be in the US if our civilization comes apart at the seams - which I also think is a definite possibility.
I have always been amazed by those who continue to insist that a war fixes an economy. I once asked one of these true believers if he could imagine two large family farms bordering each other with each family having six young adult sons and six daughters and with outbuildings, livestock, tractors etc. He said yes he understood farming and he could imagine that. I said okay suppose something happens to start a feud between the two families and they pull out their deer rifles, shotguns etc. and start shooting at each other. One family sends a son over to burn down the other families biggest barn where all the most valuable harvested crops are stored and in the process of burning it he is killed. In retaliation for the barn burning the other family burns down the home of the dead son’s family. After a little while of listening to all this he got the picture finally.
War destroys lives, and property and produces nothing. How can anyone believe it will rehabilitate a wrecked economy? It is equivalent to thinking that the best thing to do if you are sick is to shoot yourself in the foot.
It’s great for the general store owner, who now gets to sell all the needed supplies to both families to rebuild.
It’s not so great for the ones to suffer it, though.
its as asinine as the obama policy of getting ppl to destory perfectly working cars so that they could replace it with new cars
the difference between a good economist and a bad economist is that a bad economist can only see the immediate effect of the policy of the recipient, but not on the effect on all people in the economy
Economic in One Lesson, The Broken Window Fallacy. While the general store may owner may benefit from selling supplies to family to rebuild what was broken. Another general store owner (or the same store owner) may suffer, because instead of buying a new clothes for the season that year, both families were using their resources to replace what was ttheir broken windows.
So if you look at the entire economy.
Without the broken window, society would’ve one window, new clothes. To a society with a broken window, that only have the replaced window
Which society is richer? Obviously the society without the broken window
I agree, November will tell the tale.
We have an expat in Panama here on FR. I think their medical is pretty good, and probably will soon be better than ours. I’m wondering if our doctors will migrate down there.
Seems like the American Dream might migrate to South America thanks to the corrupt media and some American terrorists (Ayers) and their mouthpiece, and a bunch of “gimme” racists. Unbelievable.
But I’ve long thought that this country was established by good genes, people with the courage and gumption to take their chances to find freedom...and maybe that will have to happen again somewhere else.
This cannot be emphasized enough.
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