--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> , "shempmcgurk" <shempmcg...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> , off_world_beings <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> > > <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> > , "authfriend" <jstein@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> > > <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> > , "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> > > <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto: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*. > > > > > > 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?>>
Of course I know what discretionary spending is. That's why I mentioned it. You obviously don't, that's why you had to go look it up, but still you don't understand what it is. It is basically the spending over which there is a choice. It is basically the annual budget of the Government. Military spending is more than half of the US budget when you take out Social Security and Medicare. OffWorld
