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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB
WWII played a huge role in our ultimate recovery from the Great Depression. You know the phrase, "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it"? Yeah, some folks have already started to express caution. If times get really desperate, and people feel vulnerable and scared, it would be very tempting for the gov't to create jobs in, say, the defense industry. Bombers and tankers, anyone?
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This seems a little . . . alarmist, since the jobs that spurred the economy in the 1940s (primarily factory-based, or related to blue-collar or no-collar jobs) wouldn't really exist for modern warfare and automated production lines.
Unless Joe Sixpack can weld together an unmanned attack drone, I just don't see this as viable anymore, certainly not viable enough to consider it for any sort of semi-'conspiracy' theory.
Still, I feel where you're coming from - the lack of consensus on how to handle the situation could seriously lead to some awkward "policy-pushing" under the guise of solution. Indeed, that's what Republicans consider a large portion of the current stimulus.
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