Dark_Lord_2008 on 27 April 2013
Conservatives these days seem to be totally against public spending of any kind regardless of its benefits to the economy and society as a whole. WW2 spending during and after the war helped contribute towards the prosperity of the years that followed. WW2 was needed for the world economy to fully recover from the 1930s Great Depression. The 1950s and 1960s are regarded as the two most prosperous decades since WW2. The sacrifices made in WW2 benefited both society and the economy as a whole.
