WHERE ANTI AMERICANISM COMES FROM?
DEBT TO THE LORD DOES NOT MAKE SERFS GRACIOUS. ESPECIALLY IF THE LORD SET THE FIRE. Paul Krugman noticed that World War Two “left America with a big debt — bigger, relative to our resources, than we’re likely to face when the economic rescue is over. We dealt with it.” Why? Krugman does not say. He is simply happy to assert that “big defense spending during the war didn’t somehow make it easier to pay down debt after the war was over.” *** Krugman’s inner certainty made it somehow easier for me to show that, au contraire, defense spending during the war allowed the USA to purchase the world while it was on sale. No wonder the investment or, in other words, the debt of World War Two, was worth it. The devil is in what was the debt for, and who it was supposed to be paid back to. That the US government paid US defense contractors with borrowed money it got from US taxpayers was a sort of symbolic calculus during WWII. Relative to these internal intricacies, the result of WWII, that the U
