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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (265178)12/19/2005 4:40:58 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 1573690
 
re: The dificulty of sustaining a level of defense spending is primarily determined by the % of GDP spent on defense. The only times that I can think of since WWI when the % was lower was during the 30s and during Clinton's 2nd term. In both of those cases the percentage was not a lot lower.

Are we defending the GDP or the country? Why does military spending have to go up with GDP?

And on your numbers, is Iraq included? I believe those numbers (huge) are not in the "normal" defence figures. Also do the "social programs" include military entitlements? You have to be careful when you quote a site with an agenda... military entitlements are military spending.
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