Political Class Dismissed

Robert Higgs really puts it into perspective with this one.

It Would Be Cheaper to Fight World War II Again

Maybe it would be better if the government scrapped its present budget entirely, and provoked the Japanese to bomb Pearl Harbor again. Then we could fight World War II over. Yes, yes, many people would have to die, but the Pentagon could compensate these unfortunates by awarding each of them a posthumous Silver Star, and in a strictly financial sense, this plan would be much cheaper than what the government is doing now. The largest deficit of the war, incurred in fiscal year 1943, was, in today’s dollar’s, about $546 billion, or less than a third of the deficit the Obama regime (building on the Bush regime’s proligacy, to be sure) will run this year.