Samuelson and Hitler

In 1936, Hermann Goering, the Reich Marshal with a large girth, said in a radio broadcast: "Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat". Twelve years later, Samuelson lifted this duality out of the realm of the Nazi metaphysic and inducted it into the realm of the liberal metaphysic. That he could do it so easily and without any fear of the transplant being in any way 'rejected