--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <no_re...@...> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> , "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> , "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> , 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*. > > > Here's a strange situation. I agree with Turq, and disagree with Judy > and Shemp. > > Obviously Turq. meant Government discretionary spending, not GDP !
Keep digging the hole you're in. Do you even know what "discretionary spending" is? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discretionary_spending Depending upon how much discretionary spending is for any given year, defense may represent 600% of discretionary spending. Look, if Barry meant something other than GDP, let him say: "oops, I meant to say this or that." Why second guess him? We all make mistakes; let Barry tell us himself what he meant and we can go from there. > > If you take social security out of the national budget (which is not > SUPPOSED to be factored into it), then military spanding is half the US > budget. Even if you leave in SS, then military is STILL more than one > fifth. > > > [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7a/U.S._Federal_Spendi\ > ng_-_FY_2007.png/350px-U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY_2007.png] > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY_2007.png> >
