Thread: U.S. Debt Clock

http://www.costofwar.com/

So, let's discuss this idea that somehow war helps our economy. No, it really doesn't. It just adds to the national debt. We are now spending as much money as the rest of the world combined on our defense.

The idea that this does something positive to our economy is just too weird. Why not instead build an enormous pyramid in the middle of the desert? That surely beats invading other countries for no reason. It's safer too.

Building something here, transporting it halfway across the world to be dropped out of a plane and/or shot from a gun.....then justifying this action as economically positive just doesn't work. I think Adam Smith would probably not understand. The Keynsians would probably agree, but I don't think anyone here could stomach John Maynard Keynes's radical economic socialism. No way.