Why Guns Are Better Than Butter - Forbes.com
So the notion that war is the friend of big government seems questionable to me, based on things that have happened in the past century at least. Rather, it seems that economic crisis, and economic intervention, is the thing to worry about if you want to keep government under control. Which bodes poorly for current times, when the war’s won but the bailouts are coming fast and furious. Eternal vigilance–especially now.
On the other hand, a lot of these social service/economic control campaigns are called “Wars” for pr purposes: the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs, the War on Crime, etc.
I suspect this is because people are accustomed to spending money and suspending liberties in “times of war.”
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