The Great War was downgraded to second place with the onset of something so much more "greater." And now we look at the Great Depression as the ultimate, which may possibly soon be surpassed by what can not be imagined.
Ben Bernanke is a student of how lack of liquidity caused the stock market rout of October 1929 to cascaded into a decade of unemployment and slashing of national commerce. Yet, as most of us know, unemployment, a good measure of suffering during the depression, only started to improve in 1941.
If we are about to descend into Great Depression II, then there will only be one way uproot the mindset of greed, deregulation and irresponsibility that caused it. And the answer to that is a war. Not a little war of volunteers that is taking a mere 4% of our Gross National Product, but a real war, with a draft, with rationing, with massive air raids on civilian populations, with alliances of good guys against bad, with meetings of heads of state in far off islands protected by flotillas of war ships.
I'm talking about a real war, a great war, one with rationing of food, of bond drives, one that will take a third of our gross national product; but also bring full employment and really great songs.
Now, there were some minor downsides to this solution for Great Depression I, that I am advocating. Based on the previous "solution" which was WWII, which roughly cost 50 million killed by military action, and some three or four times that number dead by starvation, genocide or disease. And there was the material destruction of scores of major cities, towns and villages; and trauma, physical and emotional that ruined uncounted lives........
But it did end the Depression.
And which of the two candidates is more likely to bring us this sure fire solution. Well it is certainly not that wimp Barack Obama, who just wants to talk....talk to anyone, rather than do what is necessary to back our opponents into a corner and let them taste some fear.
What will bring the Hawks of Russia back to power faster than placing a quick tempered angry old man, who can't quite keep the names of allies and enemies clear, with his finger on the nuclear trigger.
Do we want an elite "intellectual" who will simply "talk" in an attempt to find common grounds with bad guys, or someone who is a risk taker, who is comfortable enough with war that he truly believes it is the essence of pure patriotism, with no compunctions about exactly who those bombs land on.
So, that's it. I hope I have convinced you all of the logic of my argument. McCain is the man who has the instincts for resolving the economic hole we may find ourselves in shortly. Heck, if this economic crisis is avoided, his Secretary of Treasury Phil Gramm, will complete the work of destruction of our economy.
We may have to replace the old mantra of "Greed is Good" with "War is Good." And if we believe this, as all the evidence presented here irrefutably supports, then McCain-Palin is just the ticket.
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