On Dec 11, 2:17 am, Mark & Juanita wrote:
J. Clarke wrote:
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So the boom during WWII was due to ther governmnent forcing the
private sector to produce more?

Umm, yes it was. It was called the "war effort". Businesses were pushed
to produce war materiel, strategic goods were rationed, women went to work
in the factories producing military products while men of military age were
serving in the armed forces. Now, those people who were working in those
factories and businesses were making money and being paid. They had to eat
and have services and other goods. The whole economy benefited from that
effect; however, this was still being done on government borrowing
(remember war bonds?).

I remember hearing about war bonds, I'm not old enough to have bought
any.

I also remember some of the lunatic fringe claiming that FDR
wanted war to pull the US out of the Depression--those megalomaniacs
trying to conquer the world must has escaped their attention...

.....

i.e., you would like to be able to mold the Constitution into anything
that you feel would be good at any one time. That is not how or why it was
written. Read the federalist and anti-federalist papers sometime. Nothing
in there about being a "living, breathing document that says whatever an
activist judiciary or other authority says at any time". Instead there is
concern about a runaway federal government and how the constitution was
designed to limit the powers of the federal government.

A living breathing approach is certainly appropriate when considering
such things as what constitutes "cruel and unusual". It is not such
a good thing when considering what constitutes 'interstate commerce.'

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FF