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Are you still claiming that government spending does not generate revenue for Microsoft?
BTW, Microsoft sells to foreign governments as well. Do those sales generate revenue?
Can you state that none of Microsofts revenues are derived from government spending?
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Is that why WWII is credited with lifting America out of the Depression via increased government spending, poster whose alias and avatar are those of a girl?
Maybe Congress should close Lewis-McChord, discharge all the USAF reservists who post from their duty station, and lay off all the civilian employees.
No impact on the community, huh?
http://www.museum.siu.edu/museum_classroom_grant/Museum_Explorers/school_pages/bourbonnais/page6.htm
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Congress has been doing that to bases for quite some time, but in the last several years alone, it has done that to several bases around the US. Hell, the stated purpose of the Joint Base concept is to save on operational costs. The economy did not recover until 1950. While WWII is given credit by ignorant people, all it did was temporarily make the job situation disappear. Of course, we could just implement a peacetime draft like Truman did after WWII was over, and fix our jobs problem now, right? What WWII did do was obliterate much of the world's infrastructure, giving the US an unfair advantage for the following two decades. Shall we give that gimic another try as well?
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So you deny that government spending lifted the United States out of the Great Depression and sustained our economic well-being?
The wide array of New Deal programs and agencies which existed in 1939 meant that the federal government was markedly larger and more actively engaged in social and economic activities than it had been in 1929. Moreover, the New Deal had accustomed Americans to a national government which played a prominent role in national affairs and which, at least under Roosevelt's leadership, often chose to lead, not follow, private enterprise and to use new capacities to plan and administer large-scale endeavors.
As war spread throughout Europe and Asia between 1939 and 1941, nowhere was the federal government's leadership more important than in the realm of "preparedness" — the national project to ready for war by enlarging the military, strengthening certain allies such as Great Britain...
http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/tassava.WWII
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The last time a GOP retard and Wall Street sank the world economy in 1929, it took a Democrat and WWII to get us out with massive, prolonged government spending and a deficit.
The US government's reaction to its entry into W.W.II was to institute massive deficit spending, and the conscription of all able bodied young men for the war effort, thus creating a full-employment economy which was the immediate end to the Great Depression.
A belief existed that another depression might occur upon the return of the young men to the labor force so a comprehensive veteran's benefit package was legislated.
The logistics of the ensuing peace created a natural US trade advantage which allowed for the unfettered repayment of the war generated deficit.
The liberal veteran's educational and housing benefit resulted in increased productivity and a construction boom.
These forces combined to forestall any otherwise feared return to the depression.
Most historians and economists agree that the Depression did not end until the beginning of WW II.
It improved economics because the war created more jobs such as creating weaponry and manufacturing the raw materials to run a war.
These new jobs were able to jump start the economy.
Minister of Truth
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All of the talking points that Legion posted are BS. The recovery occurred after WWII, as the US found itself able to get things done in a bombed-out world.
That's just not so. Here's a chart of GDP from 1929 to 1950. The recovery occurred well before the end of WWII. In fact, we entered a recession following the end of WWII:
