[BitWielder1]

I believe Germany and Japan did most of their rebuilding themselves, unlike Afghanistan & Iraq where we gave them most of it.
It's an example of how welfare does not work on the international level either.
A & I have nothing to be proud of. G & J have plenty.

[Tublecane]

“I believe Germany and Japan did most of their rebuilding themselves, unlike Afghanistan & Iraq where we gave them most of it.
It’s an example of how welfare does not work on the international level either.”

There was the Marshall Plan, which along with the GI Bill is perpetually put forward as an example of Big Government spurring the postwar economic boom.