...it's not like we didn't have a massive transportation infrastructure in place or anything. Manufacturers simply retooled and the country was put on a war-footing rapidly. The reason we pulled through the Depression was in no small part because of government spending - ever hear of the WPA, CCC, or the TVA. You're again making the same mistake of presuming that I haven't read books on such subjects. Who do you think worked in the factories and manned the battle stations? Men and women who to a great extent had benefited from government relief spending, subsidies, and work programs. Without that spending, the US manpower needed might not have been there. All that butter spending undoubtedly was essential to the war effort when it was needed. Builds morale...
"Do you honestly believe the populace today could be mobilized into anything approaching what was done in WW2?"
This is why the Founding Fathers were largely against a large, permanent standing army - it breeds arrogance.
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