On 05/11/2010, at 5:32 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
> Charlie wrote:
>
>> ...and judging by GDP figures, the USA is still fighting the Cold War.
>
> Hmmm, I looked it up, and military outlays under GWB as a % of GDP were less
> than they were under Carter, around 4% or a bit less. vs. Carter's 5%+.
How much better Armageddon would have been if they tried to blow up
something that actually looked a bit like a comet.
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Ronn! Blankenship <
ronn_blankens...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> From this morning's fly-by:
>
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/495296main_epoxi
Charlie wrote:
>...and judging by GDP figures, the USA is still fighting the Cold War.
Hmmm, I looked it up, and military outlays under GWB as a % of GDP were less
than they were under Carter, around 4% or a bit less. vs. Carter's 5%+. And
he said that the US was going to have to increase defens
From this morning's fly-by:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/495296main_epoxi-1-full_full.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/2bkv3jv
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I'm trying to imagine us as being in shape for any large enterprises in 1979,
and I was there and 40 years old at the time. Everything we'd started either in
the lush postwar years or in the wake of the Fourth Great Awakening had fizzled
out, the young people were moving into middle age, the gi
On 04/11/2010, at 2:15 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
>
> Sure, if they invaded Europe in '79 and Carter wasn't willing to start
> Armageddon. But, the military was a drain on their GDP, rising to 45% of it
> at the end.
...and judging by GDP figures, the USA is still fighting the Cold War.
Charlie.
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On 04/11/2010, at 8:32 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
>
>> It is quite possible that we falter over the next two years, sliding back
>> into depression. One of the most depressing figures is that the average
> GDP
>> growth rate for the last 30 years will result in unemployment increasing,
>> since we