The lack of education being displayed on this thread is scaring the hell out of me.
First Mnt. Dew- I am very happy that your points are clear, a rarity on these boards, but the rest of your argument is the odd kind of revisionist history that you find in skin head manifesto's. If New Deal spending and Hoover's do nothing approach both made the depression worse and WW2 spending didn't end it, then what, I fearfully ask, did?
The truth is that massive Government spending can end a depression or recession in the right situation. That situation is the opposite of what sam w. is saying. If we can pay the average person to build stuff that they aren't buying that we are selling all over the world at very high demand, like tanks and airplanes that is great news. It is a huge influx of money into our pockets from other nations. Our government was buying plenty of them to, but they were doing it with maintainable taxation and without just printing up money as they wished. So inflation was controlled and the currency remained strong.
Now the other end of the spectrum is the massive Government spending in Great Britain during WW2 with no way to sustain it in terms of tax income with the vast majority of that spending going to other nations pockets it was a downward spiral for their economy that coupled with the destruction of their infrastructure during the war took decades to fully dig out of.
Mnt. Dew- the reasons that the US so heavily supports Israel isn't zionist propaganda- again get away from the skinhead reading lists. Though Truman recognized them as a nation in the 50's it was an issue that most of the country didn't care about and that Truman did on mostly personal and ideological reasoning. The US then had a nearly completely hands off approach until the 7 days war in the late 60's. Israel's stunning victory in that war against what appeared impossible odds won them amazing general popularity in the US. This made supporting them good at home politics in the US. As this policy has been followed since then the general view of Israel as an important partner in world affairs has remained strong in the general population. Also Israel has provided us with much needed support and cover in international affairs over the past few decades.
Lastly the thing history teaches us most clearly is that there are no simple answers. Do wars end recessions? yes in the right situation. Do wars start recessions and crush economies? yes in the right situation. Is the world ruled by a covert group of Jews hell bent on holding poor good white folks down? No! Stop reading that shit!