War Profiteers: Merchants of Death
Whenever someone asks you to believe that war is good for the economy, he asks you to acquiesce in a conspiracy that murders to get gain.
The Good Samaritan for Obama
The Parable of the Good Samaritan goes like this: A guy gets mugged and stripped naked. He's left on the side of the road. A priest and a Levite pass him by, but a Samaritan stops to help him. This was a radical tale for Jesus to tell because Samaritans were like the Muslims of the 1st century. They were distrusted and hated by the majority religion. Obama leads Democrats (the donkey) to help the poor. It was like a an American boy getting mugged, and having Jerry Falwell and Sarah Palin walk past him, and then an al Qaeda Muslim stops to help. Obama is not a Muslim, but he is in the minds of those to whom it would matter. (like people who watch Fox News ) Each of us has our own excuse for walking past the poor. It's our money. They deserve what they get. They're lazy and will take advantage of us. But Obama gets it. I'll let him speak for himself: "If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's no...
believing that war is good for the economy is a good thing to believe because it's true...it does help the economy. doesn't mean it's a good way to help the economy though.
ReplyDeleteThe idea "war is good for the economy" has been repeated so often as to become an accepted truism.
ReplyDeleteIf war is good for the economy, why don't we conspire with one of our allies to build the largest navies in the world. Then we can send our ships into the middle of the pacific, and, because life is precious, we can evacuate all of the sailors. Then let us sink the ships.
This sort of nonsense would certainly be good business for ship builders, but for few others. It results in a net loss of capital.
If war were good for the economy, then so would be burning down your house, or blowing up your car. Destruction, by definition, destroys wealth.
A war economy certainly creates jobs, by funneling money away from what taxpayers would have spent their money on, and giving it to the merchants of death.