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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (569640)6/2/2010 1:13:29 PM
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Global arms spending hits record despite downturn

I hope you didn't think the US had the market cornered on wingers. There are wingers everywhere...esp in places like Israel and Gaza, the Congo, China, even Greece. However, the US has the market cornered on extreme wingerism.

U.S. military spending, burdened by huge costs for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, rose 7.7 percent in real terms to hit $661 billion, more than six times as much as China, the second biggest spender ahead of France, Britain and Russia.

Obama is going to lose his base if he keeps this up.

But China's rise as a global military power becomes clearer when viewed over the past decade. During that period its military spending has surged 217 percent compared to a 76 percent rise for the United States and an increase of 49 percent globally.

Did you ever notice how militarism and capitalism seem to go hand in hand? Did you ever notice how Russia and China took to capitalism like ducks to water?
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