Quote Originally Posted by kid908 View Post
just because it great jobs doesn't mean it's dept free. the only ones who benefit from war are high profile bank owners. as we need money to go to war which we need to barrow from the federal bank with interest, which create more dept.
Do you know how total wars are funded?

Bonds. Lots and lots of bonds. Sure, now they owe money to the people, but with activity back home, we can now generate it. Rob's plan, applied to a real-world scenario with less abbreviated activities, would actually be a good plan if it could be set up without being detected (which is admittedly unlikely). How did America become the dominant power in the first place? Reconstructions after World Wars I and II. We didn't have to set those up, but we need another similar setup now, and there isn't one (so make one! =D).

In similar line of thought, if Africa were reliable about paying back debts, we'd have a banking gold mine there, but you can't expect to collect when the government you lent out money to three weeks earlier is gone and replaced by a new one saying the terms of the loan are void.