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To: TimF who wrote (328856)3/14/2007 4:47:36 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576892
 
re: The defense budget alone was 14.2% of the GDP in 1953 and 9.4% in 1968. Add up the budget for DoD, Homeland Security, the CIA, the VA, State, and the nuclear weapons related activity of the Department of Energy, and then throw in foreign weapons sales, and you don't get to 9.4% of our GDP.

Apples and oranges again.


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