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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (361201)12/3/2007 1:54:50 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1574247
 
"But all the money spent on the museums or aircraft carriers represents money not used for private consumption or investment."

Huh? Most of the money goes to either salaries or profits for the contractors or subcontractors. To the extent that it wouldn't be available for private consumption or investment in reasonably short order would be for whatever foreign content is used.

And for government contracts, that tends to be pretty small.
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