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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (571048)6/12/2010 4:00:38 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1578965
 
No one in the world spends nearly as much as on the military than the king of capitalism, the US.

No one in the world has an economy nearly as big as ours. Quite a few countries devote a larger percentage of their resources to the military than the US does. North Korea being the most obvious example, spending 5 to 10 times as much. When there was a USSR they spent at various times, somewhere in the neighborhood of half again to eight times as large of portion of their economy than the US spent (the large range being because it varied over time, and also because the unreliability of data from communist countries).

Tim, it doesn't matter how big our economy is.........we are spending more on the military than our economy can afford. When will you get that fact?

Besides the USSR having spent a much large portion of its wealth on its military than the US, the other Warsaw Pact countries also spent a larger portion than the other NATO countries.

And what happened to those countries? They collapsed from the weight of all that military spending.

If you measure is absolute spending rather than portions of the economy, the reason that more capitalist countries spend more on defense is that they have more to spend, since their economy is less damaged by socialism.

Trust me, capitalist countries like Germany, Canada, France and Spain spend nothing compared to what we spend. And I bet the Scandanavian countries spend even less. And popular winger fiction notwithstanding, all those countries have capitalist economies.

I bet the soviet ocuntries that spend the most on the military bordered capitalist countries like NK vs SK.

You are implying the reverse correlation. The main reason the capitalist countries spent so much was because of the threat from the socialist countries.

Really, Tim? Who decided to invade Vietnam? Who decided to invade Iraq? Who decided to invade Afghanistan? Who encouraged/incited the overthrow of gov'ts in the Eastern Bloc?
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