I've been wondering about this concept as, domestically, we have such a difficult situation with unemployment, failing infrastructure, housing foreclosures, etc...
What if we called an end to the overseas wars, brought the soldiers back home, and created a new Civilian Conservation Corps -- with Military personnel! (Soldiers are not discharged - their duties are changed.) It could be the best stimulus available! We end the war and put them to work domestically -- rebuilding infrastructure, defending the borders, supplementing local law enforcement. We spend the military budget on home projects. Our great military-industrial complex gets new innovative projects: engineering the next era of transportation systems, clean energy and smart grids, communications, medical systems, etc. Take the gun out of the soldier's hand and give him a shovel (or computer, or put him in a classroom) House the soldiers in foreclosures to prop up the housing market. Watch the economy improve. Serves the people who need it the most. To top it off -- if we need to re-deploy military forces, they are still in the service, ready for recall.
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