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To: Road Walker who wrote (328637)	3/12/2007 11:13:27 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1575127

I'm not grasping at straws your presenting a small subset of the data as if it was the data. Your only looking from 1977. Your looking at the large companies which merged with and brought other companies, in other words those companies didn't even organically grow 5000%. Also you where apparently looking at market caps, which have grown faster than corporate revenue since 1977. You claim with absolute (ideologically driven) certainty that it didn't. Nothing ideologically about it. I presented the data, and provide sources. I presented the full range of highly relevant data, rather than the selected distorted data your presented. Market caps don't tell you the revenue or profits of the company. The 7 biggest companies now probably represent the total of what was the 50 biggest companies in the 70s before all the consolidation. Your data is barely relevant at all. I presented the dollar figures for US exports of weapons, and they are clearly tiny compared to US military purchases. I've shown how much US military purchases have declined as a percentage of GDP over the years. And my data covers the whole range of time that we are talking about, not some selected low point or high point.