To: CodeToad
Try takings some basic Economics. Your ignorance here is simply inexcusable. Out of a $14 trillion annual economy we could afford to spend $4 or 5 trillion on defense.
It not the total amount spent but the total amount spent vis via the whole pot that counts
It is a matter of perspective and over all income. For the USA this is no big strain to spend on Defense.
To put it in terms you might understand, For you spending $100,000 is an proably an unbearable amount of spending, for Bill Gates it’s pocket change. Same here for the USA.
8 posted on
12/12/2007 3:42:37 PM PST by
MNJohnnie
(Hillary Clinton has never done one thing right. She thinks that qualifies her to be President?)
To: MNJohnnie
"Try takings some basic Economics. Your ignorance here is simply inexcusable. Out of a $14 trillion annual economy we could afford to spend $4 or 5 trillion on defense."
Your argument assumes that the $14 trillion dollars belongs to the US Government and not to you and me average Joe Q. Citizen. A common misconception these days, that the money in my pocket is not really mine, it's just what the good masters in Washington have deemed me worthy enough to keep.
10 posted on
12/12/2007 3:47:37 PM PST by
rednesss
(Fred Thompson - 2008)
To: MNJohnnie
"To put it in terms you might understand, For you spending $100,000 is an proably an unbearable amount of spending, for Bill Gates it’s pocket change. Same here for the USA."
Forgot one thing.
I could afford $100,000 too if I could print my own money.
12 posted on
12/12/2007 3:58:39 PM PST by
rednesss
(Fred Thompson - 2008)
To: MNJohnnie
Really it is because people look at dollars rather than ratios.
14 posted on
12/12/2007 4:18:06 PM PST by
svcw
(There is no plan B.)
To: MNJohnnie
Try takings some basic Economics. Your ignorance here is simply inexcusable. Out of a $14 trillion annual economy we could afford to spend $4 or 5 trillion on defense.
Maybe if they triple our taxes. Even if they eliminated all government programs except defense they would have to at least double our taxes to pay 5 trillion for defense. I think the Feds took in about 2.5 trillion last year total, and since over $400 billion is just to pay interest on the debt, you would still have to pay that.
To: MNJohnnie
“Try takings some basic Economics. Your ignorance here is simply inexcusable. Out of a $14 trillion annual economy we could afford to spend $4 or 5 trillion on defense”
I don’t know what made you so stupid but it really worked. that was so full of nonsense that I wouldn’t know where to begin.
27 posted on
12/12/2007 5:45:15 PM PST by
CodeToad
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