Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending.

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

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