Justin Schwartz wrote:
>
> >
> >Even if military
> spending were to shoot up to Vietnam War, Korean War or even WWII levels, it
> wouldn't have the same sort of Keynesian effect involved in literally
> putting the country back to work.
>
WW-2 put 10+ million men and women in the serice, which sort of cut into unemployment by itself; also, a goodly proportion of those were better clothed and a hell of a lot better fed than they had been during the preceding 10 years.
Carrol