On 7 Mar 2006 at 13:10, Gary VanderMolen wrote: > >> "GDP rose at a 1.4 percent rate in the fourth quarter. Another > >> factor was strong government spending, the result of the war in > >> Afghanistan and counter-terrorism efforts. It's interesting to note > >> that without the government's increase, GDP would have been > >> negative..." > > > > It is money going in to the economy. Is it somehow invalidated by > > the fact that it came from the government? > > And isn't that also what Franklin D. Roosevelt did to mitigate the > Great Depression of the 1930's? Some say that going to war in 1940 is > what really ended that depression.
Then they would be wrong, as the depression was over by 1938, and WWII didn't start until 1941. Vince
