What If the Dollar Falls?

Doc Dutch said:
Life on Sybil's World is depressing.

https://www.loc.gov/classroom-mater...pression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/overview/
When Japan attacked the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, the United States found itself in the war it had sought to avoid for more than two years. Mobilizing the economy for world war finally cured the depression. Millions of men and women joined the armed forces, and even larger numbers went to work in well-paying defense jobs. World War Two affected the world and the United States profoundly; it continues to influence us even today.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/econom...acs-transcripts-and-maps/end-great-depression
Wars are expensive, and the U.S. government was willing to spend whatever it took to win World War II. The federal budget grew from less than $9 billion in 1939 to over $95 billion in 1945. A total of $290 billion was spent on the war effort. The United States raised half of the money through general taxes and the rest by selling war bonds and obtaining loans. The Revenue Act of 1942 established a national tax system that would continue into the twenty-first century. The gross national product (total value of all goods and services produced by a nation's workers) jumped from $90 billion in 1939 to $212 billion in 1945. The total amount of war materials produced by 1945 was staggering. U.S. factories had made almost 300,000 warplanes, 86,000 tanks, 64,000 landing ships, 6,000 navy vessels, millions of guns, billions of bullets, and hundreds of thousands of trucks and jeeps. By itself, the United States produced more war materials than the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) did as a group....

...After more than ten years of economic depression, war mobilization dramatically revived the U.S. economy. The rate of production of goods and services in the United States more than doubled during the war years, with employment eventually reaching 98 percent of the workforce. Nine million workers had been jobless in 1939, as the nation struggled to make its way out of the Great Depression. By 1945, just six years later, that figure dropped to one million. Many new jobs had been created in private business and industry, and the federal government had grown substantially larger during the war. Already on the rise during the Depression, the number of federal civilian employees grew by 400 percent between 1941 and 1945. In all, seventeen million new jobs were created in private business and government sectors.
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War does not end depression. It extends it.
 
JesusAI said:
hearts and minds,
your connection to god,
your mind,
your credibility.

that's just to start off.
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Dutch has already lost his mind.
His heart is still functioning.
You don't get to declare anyone's 'credibility'. Omniscience fallacy. You can only speak for you.
You don't get to speak for God either. Omniscience fallacy.
 
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