So I guess the conservative ideology has proven itself wrong yet again. Government spending (for example, on the military) does help the economy!KIRCHNER: I said that a solution for the problems right now, I told Bush, is a Marshall Plan. And he got angry. He said the Marshall Plan is a crazy idea of the Democrats. He said the best way to revitalize the economy is war. And that the United States has grown stronger with war.
STONE: War, he said that?
KIRCHNER: He said that. Those were his exact words.
STONE: Is he suggesting that South America go to war?
KIRCHNER: Well, he was talking about the United States: ‘The Democrats had been wrong. All of the economic growth of the United States has been encouraged by wars.’ He said it very clearly.
During the Mao era China had great economic growth, which the CIA eventually recognized. During that time, China was less involved in wars than the United States. We could say the same thing about the industrialization of the USSR before World War Two. Socialism can fight wars, but it needs peace to grow. It's time for a new world economic structure!
For more information on the Chinese economy under Mao Zedong, please read this older article of mine: http://partisan-news.blogspot.com/2010/03/why-maoism-works.html
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I take it the socialist states spent their budget on PEOPLE'S NEEDS instead of WAR.
There was a video on The Real News about this very thing, that war isn't that good for the economy. The economist they were interviewing (not that I put all that much stake in the words of capitalist intellectuals who are paid to defend the system, but still) said that if you spend $1 million on the military "defense" you create 12 jobs (on average). Now, if you spend $1 million on health care you create 20 jobs. Spend that $1 million on education and you create 29 jobs. So the statistics speak for themselves.
I think the statistics you were talking about come from a Massachusetts university. We should go and find that video, then post it here.
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