A modest proposal to solve the homeless problem in America....

[Kasz216]

Mr Khan said:

Kasz216 said:

SamuelRSmith said:

 

Actually, I was referring to the war. Keynsians who believe that spending is spending should have no problem with billions being spent on bombs, etc.

That is the strange disconnect isn't it?  One war got us out of depression because of huge government spending, and another helped get us in one due to huge government spending and is why we can't recover.

I've never seen those two points reconciled.

These wars have helped business, to be certain. I would say the general changes in our economic factors (the much smaller share of manufacturing) makes the difference, but these wars have helped some smaller companies in manufacturing. My dad's steel forging company has benefitted most from the war and from (sadly enough) hydraulic fracking

Wow that's got to be a pretty big ethical dilema for you.  It reminds me of the episode of Roseanne where Darlene realizes that all of the money she gets from stuff comes from her mother's loose meat restraunt despite her being a staunch vegetarian.  (Of course it only reminds me of this because I work a boring nightshfit job with a TV and that episode was just on recently.)

Still, in general all I hear on TV from liberals is how the Wars sent us into this crashing recession.  Went from watching no TV to way to much with no choice.  (Just active enough that reading a book doesn't work.)