Your opinion is based on material. In other words, the only thing keeping you here as an American is material gain. If it doesn't have a dollar sign on it, then it is nonsense. Take the profit away and, like many, you will just move off to Canada.
These kinds of arguments go on and on and they are one of the main reasons people view Ron Paul and the people who support him as extremist zealots. There is no response to this thread because of the limitations of the maturity of those involved in the discussion.
Two years ago in my US History Class in high school I was taught that FDR slowed the depression with his spending and eventually cured it with the war. Of course my age group supports him.