It was WWII that ended the Great Depression. All of a sudden everyone had paying jobs, due to the immediate need to send thousands of men overseas with expensive war machines and kill Germans, Italians, and Japanese. ;-) Hitler was also able to end Germany's economic woes before the war by ramping up military production bigtime.

I don't see that same kind of solution now as being a very good idea at all. The world has grown smaller and the weapons more terrible since 1945.

But here's a thought that struck me while reading various posts here. People on both sides of the argument seem to feel that the other side are crybabies. ;-) Isn't that kind of ironic? Or amusing?

Both the Right and the Left in the USA keep saying that the other side are a bunch of whiners, in effect.

Gosh...maybe they're both right about that! ;-D