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To: i-node who wrote (616180)	6/14/2011 6:20:59 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580340

>> …There continues to be a popular perception that war is beneficial to an economy, particularly if it does not lead to much physical damaged to the country prosecuting it. Our economy should be booming right now. I suppose if you believe WWII was great for the economy, the answer is that we need to mobilize like we did in World War II. We could send over a tenth of our population (over 30 million people today) to Afghanistan, so as to promote full employment. Then we could assign each Afghani there own personal American solider...