Ed Weick: > Why is it ludicrous? Roosevelt tried it during the 1930s. Wartime spending > ended the Great Depression.
Ed Goertzen: > ***Yes, it was money that was spent through wages that did not produce > consumer goods. People do not generally consume bombs. (well, the enemy > does) The wages were spent on the "over production" (underconsumption, Important point. The same ugly trick is being played again now by Dubya, more than ever it seems -- with the "collateral benefit" of securing oil access in central Asia. Arms and oil make the economy go round... :-( (even the most unsustainable one) Chris _____________________________________________________________ Bush's Faustian Deal with the Taliban: (22-May-2001 !!) http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/01_columns/052201.htm
