re: #715 Scion9

It actually worked during WWII, when the Federal government had totalitarian control over the economy and impressed 11 million plus young men into ‘jobs’, and put millions more into jobs creating stuff that was going to get blown up, which amounts to the same thing as having people dig ditches and then fill them in again.

Of course, as soon as all those men came back home, and the women stopped building tanks and bombers, we went back to 11% unemployment.

Funny how the FDR worshippers always forget that part of the bedtime story…