--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcg...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > [snip] > > Also in their favor is that Euro-nations have not spent > > the decades since World War II spending literally *half* > > of their Gross National Product on "defense," which is > > a euphemism for both "Better ways to kill people," and > > "Subsidies for Defense Industries." America has. > [snip] > > Before you open your big, fat mouth about > things you know nothing about, why don't > you actually do some research? > > Show me one year since WWII when half of > the GDP was spent on "defense". For goodness > sake's, even with Obama's $3.8 trillion budget > this year (which includes defense as just one > category of spending, which is not even the > largest one) that only represents about 25% of > the entire GDP.
What he's most likely thinking of is the stat that U.S. defense spending amounts to more than half of *global military spending*. > How does this guy spout off this stuff without > knowing what he is talking about? SOP for Barry. Back in February he made this startling claim: "Over half of the adult population of the U.S. is on a regular prescription for some kind of antidepressant." Of course it's nowhere *near* that high a percentage. Maybe he made the same mistake as he did with defense spending: maybe U.S. adults account for half the antidepressant prescriptions globally. As I keep saying, Barry just makes up the reality he'd *like* to have. (And of course he'll never admit to having been wrong on either of these.) What a loser.
