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Politics : Welcome to Slider's Dugout
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To: Webster Groves who wrote (14998)2/3/2009 7:14:50 AM
From: Northern Marlin3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 50342
 
Are you able to make a logical argument?

In post #14993 of this thread you stated: Separately the US itself was building up its own war making ability and that started in '39 with the start of WWII. That earlier infusion of contracts to industry likely the beginning of the end of the Depression in the US.

I responded in post #14995 that you were mistaken and provided U.S. government statistics showing employment in the military supply industry to be 300,000 in mid-1940 (labor force 55.9 million, unemployed 8.8 million) and 2.5 million in mid-1941 (labor force 56.9 million, unemployed 6.8 million). These employment figures showed that it wasn’t until 1942 that government procurement of war materiel had a dramatic effect on employment.

In post #14999 you belittle my argument with this barb:

I suggest avoiding the DOD for your economic data, try the real world.

A better choice would have been for you to concede that the U.S. government began to plan for building up its war making ability in 1939, and you were mistaken or careless when you wrote:

the US itself was building up its own war making ability and that started in '39

Then a civil discussion could have continued whether government spending on the war effort helped to end the Depression.

Instead, you expose yourself as a fool: In the same post (#14999), you mention GNP and refer readers to an excerpt from a basic economics text written by a professor of economics at a college in Indiana. GNP? How did that get measured? Who measured it? You don’t think the professor measured it himself, do you? I’m gonna take a wild guess that GNP statistics provided in the professor’s text came from… the U.S. government! So, according to you, one should avoid U.S. government employment statistics and seek economic data from your “real world”, like GNP statistics provided by… the U.S. government! Yes, in your “real world” you are brilliant!
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