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Don't wars help the economy?

• mikeash 13y ago
  Eisenhower certainly didn't think so, and he lived through the main example people bring up to support it: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
  • mpyne 13y ago
    That implies that the people who push and pay for guns and rockets would ever allocate that money to food or clothes, if it wasn't spent for the former. As far as resourcing goes food and clothing is as easy a problem to solve as the U.S. will ever encounter; it is the will to solve it that is necessary.
• regularfry 13y ago
  I'm finding it hard not to call this a broken window fallacy.