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Quote by: Kakumei  Wars help the economy after a while. Thats one of two basic reasons we got out of the Great Depression. |
That is a good point and it did cross my mind when I made my post. The military-industral complex did save America from the Great Depression and it sparked the industrial revolution, in great part because women joined the work place environment as the men were mostly overseas fighting Hitler and Japan, etc.
It is still one of our main exports, but creating wars to keep that momentum going is sort of problematic don't you think? But can we now survive without that export and did the war in Iraq really do our economy as much good as what happened in the 1930s and 1940s? Or are we getting a reverse effect somehow? And why?
Is it because we are no longer willing to live poor to support making more bullets, bombs, and all those other weapons? Have we exported to man of those kinds of jobs? It seem that wars no longer are having much of a big bang in our economy by creating new jobs.
The great steal making industry in Indiana was the backbone of our military constuction, now they import a lot of steal at a cheaper cost.
As Hillary Clinton spoke about a few days ago.
Also as the world wars closed out we converted quickly to making domestic cars, electric freezers, washing machines, and lots of other things such as TV sets. Transferring military technology for domestic purposes. Now it seems we are letting all that slip away like water through our hands. Who's hands? Those in Washington DC?
Then we got a big boost with the Kennedy space program to go to the moon, then that program was shut down - but the 1950s were the crowning glory of that upgrade in our economy with lots of jobs, as unions came in and credit cards appeared, and medical insurance was promoted.
Then the 1960s and the great anti-materialism, anti-establishment and anti-war movements came into play. Wham bam thank you Nam. The rest was sort of downhill.
Whatcha' think now?