I am remembering my mid 1930s history. During those dark days, communism was on the rise then too, just like today. It seemed like the answer to all the ills of no jobs, etc... WW2 came around and voila’, everyone was employed again. So do TPTB angle for another war? It sure seems like it.
Profits for everyone during world war a-go-go!
It wasn’t people “employed” fighting WW2 that ended the financial woes of the 30’s and 40’s, because if it was, then the country would have fallen back into the same mess when all those soldiers came back home; unemployed. It was free market capitalism and the US entrepreneurial spirit rebuilding Europe, and elsewhere, AFTER the war that got us out of the mess the liberal Roosevelt polices created.
We could just as easily get out of the mess we are in now, if the government would get out of the way.
Our 2 current wars aren’t putting everyone back to work; technology has made a lot of those jobs disappear over the decades, and the costs of those wars have cost our dollar its value.
The threat of communism back then lead to reforms that made the “American dream” the envy of the world, and a magnet for the most talented people in it; today companies have learned how to avoid the reforms of the last 100 years, and we can see the result.