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To: KarlInOhio

:PAUL KRUGMAN, NEW YORK TIMES: Think about World War II, right? That was actually negative social product spending, and yet it brought us out.”

Only a complete moron could claim that U.S. military expenditures during World War II, and their decisive role in the defeat of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, had negative social value.


12 posted on 09/07/2012 7:21:35 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: riverdawg
I guess Krugman fails to note that every other major industrialized nation during that time/post WWII...was smashed...making the U.S. pretty much the only game in town to buy products/materials from during a period of reconstruction...and that because of the war we already had the infrastructure in place to utilize maximum output.

But then, Krugman was always full of...sheep dip.

So is he now admitting that Roosevelt and his social policies did not get us out of the Great Depression...rather, war did?

15 posted on 09/07/2012 7:41:06 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery, IXNAY THE TSA!)
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