WAR
If war is so great for our economy, then why are we in so much debt?
"There is no instance of a nation having benefitted from prolonged warfare."
"When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength."
"Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue."
"Poverty of the state exchequer causes and army to be maintained by contributions from a distance. Contributing to maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impovershed."
"With this loss of substance and ehaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and three-tenths of their income will be dissipated; while Government expenses for broken chariots, worn-out horses, breast-plates and helmets, bows and arrows, spears and shields, protective mantlets, draft-oxen and heavy wagons will amount to four-tenths of its total revenue."
This was all known LONG before the United States was founded.