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To: bentway who wrote (265228)	12/20/2005 2:31:07 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) of 1573703

I like to point out that OUR 5% of the world's population spends what the other 95% spends on ALL their militaries. It clearly highlights how distorted our spending is since the end of the Cold War. The military-industrial-government complex has just kept on drumming in the fear, confusion and doubt to a public that doesn't seem to have a clue. I imagine most of them probably would guess we spend twice what China does, but maybe one in a thousand would guess we spend ten times what China does on the military. So the US spends 10x what China does on the military. That sounds impressive, but when you take in the higher labor costs and facilities cost in the US it probably significantly lowers the value for spending ratio. I don't know what % of military budget is salaries, but I would imagine that US servicemen get paid somewhere between 10x and 20x what Chinese servicemen get paid. There is probably a similar (if not greater) expense differential for the cost of maintaining facilities - the US bases in Japan probably cost 10x to 40x the equivalent sized military bases in China. A more relevant statistic than expense would be the size of the military.

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