Reply #25: No it wasn't

[sandnsea]

By 1941, we were well on our way out of the Depression. We spent a lot of money on war and unemployment went down because of the number of soldiers, but that isn't economic recovery. WWII was a miserable economic time for people at home, there was all kinds of rationing. If you want to pretend those high GDP and tax numbers = economic stability, then why wasn't there even enough of things as simple as sugar and flour?

Then Republicans want to pretend JFK's tax cuts boosted the economy in the 60s, when the truth is he cut them because we'd paid off so much of WWII, which along with the highway bill and automobiles, boosted the economy. Not to mention, having an infrastructure in place, thanks to FDR, so we could help the world recover too. And let's not forget the GI Bill to educate troops and help buy homes.

WWII did not help our economy. We'd have been much much better off to not have that debt when the war ended. We could have done all the rest of the spending and gotten the same economic results without the suffering.