WW 2, Biggest Stimulus Package Ever

[liberalmike27]

I heard another one this weekend say FDR's policies have been proven entirely wrong, and that they failed.

Not only were they working up until he slowed down Keynesian spending in 1937, under the advice of republicans. But World War 2 was the biggest spending and employment program our government has ever entered into.

Does anyone think if we spent half as much as we do on defense each year, on jobs programs, employment programs, say, on Green energy, on insulation of houses, or on building roads and bridges here in the U.S., that we wouldn't have a booming economy? I know we would.

So why is it they separate wars, which are ineffective Keynesian programs, spending government tax money to produce jobs in war industries, and spending on other things? There is no real difference, other than when you build a road, when you make and install solar panels or windmills, when you put drains in, when you run electrical power grids, you actually increase productivity, from the time they are built, on into perpetuity.

When you build a bomb, and drop it, you produce nothing. All you do is tear down something, you kill people, and you actually cost even more, as they will then want to use your tax money to rebuild what they've knocked down, not here, but there.

So next time you hear that bullshit argument about FDRs policies not working, about spending programs, you think about our biggest spending program ever, WW2. We took 91 percent of the incomes of the richest people, and spent it to produce a war machine, and to hire millions of soldiers, and to pay them.

When they say it didn't work, they mean it didn't work for "them." The rich. You've got to watch those pronouns. They lie, they lie something awful by pretending you are part of them, or us, or our, or we.

[Winterblues]

1. The LIE that just keeps on giving

Remember during WW II the average American had very little. Most items were rationed. Sugar, tires, gasoline, nylon, you name it, it was probably rationed. The Economy was not stimulated for the masses. It was good for GM and General Electric and a few major Corporations which hired women workers at a fraction of the wage paid to men at the time..There were indeed a few that got extremely wealthy during that period, "War Profiteers" such as the Bush family but for America as a whole it was very bleak times..

[90-percent]

2. Institutions back then

It is my impression that the Institutions and leaders back in the FDR era actually took their responsibilities as custodian of the public trust very sincerely and seriously. They really worked together for the common good.

Now our institutions are run by people practicing "I got mine and you can go screw" policies.

My impression is that today our Institutions all don't give a rats ass about their responsibilities as a public trust.

People were more honorable back then than today. Even the greedy fucks back then were more honorable.

-90% jimmy

[Tigermoose]

3. Europe was destroyed - our exports helped it rebuild.

WW2 created a massive market for our exports. Other countries' infrastructures were destroyed, so they could not manufacture the needed goods. The U. S. thus reaped the benefits and was the big winner of WW2.