re: #290 jamesfirecat

I told the guy he should get an account here.

I figure he’ll either end up flouncing/getting the ban hammer in which case I won’t feel bad about severing ties with him or he’ll learn a thing or two.

To his “credit” he did give me a “new” explanation for why WW2 ended the great depression without having to say government spending helped. It was that by the time the war was over we’d killed off enough of our excess population and leveled everyone elses factories so that we were the only economic game in town…

Inventive.

Did these devastated countries have the money to buy goods from the US, or did the US ‘donate’ them?