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To: tejek who wrote (482558)	5/21/2009 3:38:58 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 1574096

There's no way of knowing. No its easily knowable. The information as to the US GDP, and the GDP of the other countries at the time is easily available. US GDP in 1944 was $1499 bil (in 1990 dollars) (from my previous source and also from onwar.com ) The US spent 37.8% of GDP on the military so that's $566.6 bil (again in 1990 dollars) No other country in the world had a GDP that was as high as our military spending. From both onwar.com and en.wikipedia.org You can see that none of the other belligerents GDP exceeded $437bil (in 1990 dollars) at any point in the war. We probably spent a lower percentage than the other major powers involved in the war, but at our peak we spent more on the military, than the entire economy, both military and civilian production, of any other country. Thanks for making my point. The fact that military spending went from 85% to 20.5% of the federal budget (actually more like 17 to 19 % because it includes categories that aren't military spending) refutes your point.

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