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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (233938)5/20/2005 9:35:28 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1575946
 
Like I said, no two countries are the same.

If your going to assert something that crazy it might not be worth talking to you about this subject.

I am talking ten years down the road spending like we are spending today.

"Why do you assume that this will be the case?"

That's what some military generals are saying.......the ones not beholden to this White House.

?!?

What generals are you talking about and why are they such great experts in the US budget over the next 10 years that I should defer to them?

If the spending you are referring to it just the spending in Iraq, then 1 - Its unlikely to stay at this level for 10 years, and 2 - Even if you double the spending 10 years of it isn't the type of spending that will sink a $14tril economy. I thought you were talking about our overall spending not the spending on Iraq (which is less than one percent of our GDP and less than 5% of our federal government spending).

First the incidence is much higher than previous wars.

If the percentage is diagnosed higher its because we are much quicker to recognize psychological problems today. In the past the condition often wouldn't be noticed or if it was there was no great effort to deal with it, people where just sent back to the front. Measure modern stress problems by the standards of WWII or send someone back in time to diagnose WWII stress problems the same way we do now and its just about certain that the stress and the problems it caused were much worse then. Its not just military PSST that gets diagnosed more often, all sorts of psychological problems get diagnosed at levels many times the level from decades ago.

Tim
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