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originally posted by: nwtrucker
a reply to: olaru12
I more or less agree with your views on the state of affairs.
The only point I depart from is the Military-Industrial complex, big money explanation.
At the time of Eisenhower's statement, the percentile of the GDP spent on the military was around 10-11%. Up until 9/11, it was around 4%. ( I'm not up the current percentile.)
Are they factors? Of course!
originally posted by: nwtrucker
a reply to: olaru12 Where did you get that number? I'd like to check it out.
originally posted by: nwtrucker
Hell, I'm no expert, but my thinking is we need to get the "real" economy going and FAST. then cut the spending to the degree we replace the 'fake' money with the 'real' money- slightly less fake money, LMAO.