--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcg...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > > 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 > , "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". > > > > > > > > > I have to agree with Turq on this. If you take Social Security out > > of > > > > the equation, then almost every year more than half was spent on > > > > military. Social Security trust fund was inserted into the equation > > by > > > > the Republicans in the 1960's to try to hide their exorbitant > > defense > > > > spending. It has no business being in there because it is a trust > > find > > > > and not the Government's to use, spend, or touch. > > > > > > > > OffWorld > > > > > > > > > > You guys are mixing up "GDP" with "Federal Budget". > > > > I was not mixing it up with GDP. I assumed he meant 'discretionary > > budget'. That seemed obvious. > > > > GDP is about 15 trillion for the US, which by the way, was always my > > argument as to why we are not in a depression, just an adjustment. > > We live in a world economy (not a US economy) of about 75 trillion with > > Europe as the biggest block at about 18 trillion. So with a 75 trillion > > dollar economy, a few trillion here and there is not the end of the > > world. > > > > OffWorld > > > > "a few trillion here and there is not the end of the world". > > Gosh, I was nervous when Bush had a deficit of $580 billion. > > This year Obama and his Democratic Congress have given us a $1.8 trillion deficit. Divide that amount by the 300 million people in the U.S. and you come up with a figure of $6,000 per person. And that's just ONE YEAR. Obama's planning on doing this each and every year. >
> Perhaps not the end of the world but pretty darn close to the end of America.>> Utter nonsense. OffWorld
