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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (513412)	9/16/2009 11:36:31 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578501

"Of course, what you're trying to do is misuse the concept of real dollars to fit your argument." Nonsense. Constant dollars are used for such things because if you don't, you miss the fact that things keep getting more expensive. "The reality is he increased the national debt by close to 50% while allowing our military infrastructure to totally collapse to the point we couldn't carry out a rescue in Iran " Sigh. The failures of Operation Eagle Claw were manifold. However, most of the failures were because of a run of very bad luck. An unexpected sandstorm reduced the force to minimum levels, and the rest of the accidents made things impossible to complete. But, let's ignore that for the moment. Inflation was outpacing the increase in expenditures. By a lot. So, if you don't calculate in constant dollars, you miss that services had to be cut. Which you obviously did.