The Influence of Politics and Requirements on Seapower
http://www.informationdissemination.net/2011/08/influence-of-politics-and-requirements.html
” Few Americans realize that the first debt stimulus plan of the United States was for shipbuilding, indeed I doubt most Americans realize that spending government money on shipbuilding is the most common form of government stimulus you will find throughout our nations history - including most recently in the 1930s and the 1980s.”