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To: mel221 who wrote (751376)

11/5/2013 10:04:55 PM

From: koan

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WWII was a huge stimulus program. Everyone had a job, men and women, and that allowed them to pay down their debt. People had high debt in 1930. It allowed people to start businesses and pay lots of taxes.

I am not saying it was a good expenditure, I am saying it worked and would work again if we spent a trillion dollars on new infrastructure and say green energy.

What I am telling you is what every economist in the world worth his/her salt, teaches in their classes.

How could it not be a stimulus? And what do you think happened?

How terrible the war was is conflating two none related topics.,

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I always like it when liberals call WWII a stimulus program. Lets review some indisputable facts;

World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. Over 60 million people were killed, which was over 2.5% of the world population.

The US suffered 418,500 deaths (.32% of the 1939 population).
en.wikipedia.org

Koan ... next you will be telling us how WWII reduced the unemployment rate since 418,500 people (mostly 18-30 year old males) were removed from the work force...

Economic advice from liberals is something we don't need... ever!