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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (341040)6/21/2007 3:54:08 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1582843
 
I wonder why...

Because I prefer to choose the appropriate measure to answer the question.

If the question is - Are American workers better off than they used to be? - Than share of GDP doesn't give you the answer. Real compensation does (to the extent that any statistic can, the real answer is complex, includes non-monetary factors, and also deals with subjective preferences and opinions)

If the question is - Is defense spending a bigger or smaller burden then it used to be? Then share of GDP does give you the answer.

Now I guess you could be thinking about or asking different questions...
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