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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: koan who wrote (751396)11/6/2013 12:41:56 AM
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>> And what do you think happened?

I think we destroyed all the other economies in the world without losing a single building involved with manufacturing. I think we used nuclear weapons to destroy entire cities, both people and industry. We used firebombing techniques that destroyed entire cities in a few days (Dresden and others).

How many bombs did Japan drop on US industry? And Germany. What about Italy?

I think we were left with the world's resources for the taking and taking cheap. We took as much as we could and paid nothing for it... for decades. We plundered the world for natural resources because we could.

It was a lot easier to build an economy when oil was pennies per barrel than when oil was $100.00 per barrel. The resulting wealth from cheap natural resources is what paid down the debts of the 1930s and 1940s.

The stimulus of WWII is the destruction of the economic competitors who currently bid against us for these natural resources.

It is no coincidence that the 1950s were economically prosperous while the 1970s, when the Arabs controlled the price of THEIR oil, was a period of economic struggles for the US.

If we want WWII style stimulus, then lets go bomb everyone to the stone age and return to an era of $1.00 per barrel oil. Hell, you could do that with a balanced budget and still win big.

This liberal economic stuff is just too easy...
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