Wow. After hearing this, it really makes me want to give these guys control over the entire medical field. The U.S. Government always has our best interests in mind!

Scott mentioned in the interview that shifting from military spending to a civilian economy might be difficult. However, I often make comments on liberal blogs and point out that Harding did nothing to cure the 1921 depression other than slash spending and tax rates. Tom Woods speaks to that in this video:

http://consultingbyrpm.com/blog/2009/04/tom-woods...

The usual liberal response to my point is something like, "Oh, that was just a simple switch-over from WWI to a peace-time economy" (I'm not sure where such an argument gets them in advancing Keynesianism). I would think that such a change-over would be more traumatic than curing a simple peace-time business recession. Nevertheless, it appears that the solution to a militarized economy would necessarily be to slash spending and tax rates to effectuate a quick switch to a non-military economy. So much for military Keyensianism.

Another great piece, Justin. However, perhaps the liberals' indifference is even more profound. For liberals, progressive politics is their religion, their faith, their entire reason for being. Therefore, they will always be impervious to economic arguments proving that their economic vision invariably leads to economic misery, the gulag and Rwanda. Having the STATE bossing around the unwashed and unenlightened is the whole point. Obama has spent his entire life learning to be the perfect liberal messiah. And he is. Now that he is in charge of the U.S. government, it too is now cloaked in the religious aura of Obama and the progressive faith. Because the government is now progressive and therefore HOLY in all its missions, its military can authentically teach the evil Taliban and Muslims how to live their lives, something the military of the evil Republican Christian Dubya could never do. This situation is exactly the same as the progressives’ indifference to poor black kids stuck in inner city public schools. The whole point of all of the religious progressive's programs is the never-ending war on the unenlightened from whence the progressive obtains personal salvation.