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81. Let's count how many things you are wrong on here.

This will be easy.

First off.

Just showing how much of a militarist you are if you think the World War II alone created the post-war economic boom.

Please cite where, anywhere, that I've even hinted that WW2 was the sole mechanism for the post-war economic boom. I won't hold my breathe....errr...breath... You might want to fix that.


Now your second blunder.

"that the outbreak of WW2 was the saving grace for the New Deal(s)" is a common conservative claim made to denigrate domestic spending by the government, as the following two articles by scholars show in support of the argument I have made above.

Except neither of those articles even mentions that. They mention some twittery about the New Deal causing the Great Depression or making it worse. Neither mention, in any specific or implied fashion, my talking point. Oops, your reading comprehension is in need of calibration. I'd recommend an NIST certified lab for that.

Number three.

Clearly, the long-term interest is served far more by spending on butter than by spending on guns, in the face of no real threat to national security that we could not meet with half our current military capacity.[/quote]

And I think, as I've stated, that the long term interest is best served on a balance of both. There truly is room for serious spending decreases on both sides. You see, given your lack of understanding of the current military support structure, it really is impossible not to include one without the other anymore. What you also fail to understand is how the military is getting smaller and has been for a long time. Current draw-downs are in the tens of thousands and will be easily exceeded through natural attrition that follows most deployments. For someone who seems have such a strong dislike for the military I find it hard to believe you could qualify an analysis that our security needs could be met with half the current force when you don't understand even a tiny fraction of it. Massive military machine? Not in decades and certainly not with the current force projections put us WAY down in terms of military growth in comparison with the rest of the world. I think we are somewhere in the 60's along with France and the UK now.


You are wrong on pretty much everything.