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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (43414)	5/24/2010 6:14:36 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Are you going to ask me to show you that 2+2=4 next? The borrowing for SDI != the total spending on SDI, it would be less, because government spending is not 100% from borrowing. But to be intentionally dis-favorable to my point, assume that every dollar spent on the program was borrowed. Even the total spending for the program is a tiny fraction of the US economy over the time, and that is obvious to anyone who knows almost anything about the program. I could look up the spending per year since the initiative started, and look up the GDP per year for all those years, and give you an exact percentage, and show you how low it is, but that's ridiculous. Asking for such research and calculation, and refusing to accept the point without it, is very like not accepting that the US has a large economy than Belize because the GDP of neither country is provided in the post, or refusing to accept the US's navy is more powerful than Chile's because I didn't provide a detailed study of each countries navy and the countries have not had a recent naval war against each other. Its not just the case that I know that SDI spending was a tiny fraction of the US economy; almost certainly you know it as well, as does everyone else who isn't totally ignorant about SDI. You aren't a particularly ignorant person. Stop playing dumb.