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Tepe:
--- Quote from: ogden on January 17, 2018, 03:20:26 pm ---Is it so hard to comprehend that nobody can tell? :D
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Not at all. We are in violent agreement.
GeorgeOfTheJungle:
--- Quote from: mtdoc on January 17, 2018, 03:26:21 am ---
--- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on January 16, 2018, 10:09:34 pm ---Is it ok to increase both (deficit and debt) to spend in this, now?
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Perhaps not, but better this than spend $700 Billion on the military .
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Isn't that a straw man fallacy?
mtdoc:
--- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on January 17, 2018, 05:38:25 pm ---
--- Quote from: mtdoc on January 17, 2018, 03:26:21 am ---
--- Quote from: GeorgeOfTheJungle on January 16, 2018, 10:09:34 pm ---Is it ok to increase both (deficit and debt) to spend in this, now?
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Perhaps not, but better this than spend $700 Billion on the military .
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Isn't that a straw man fallacy?
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No. It’s prioritizing spending.
There is a pervasive political hypocrisy here in the US, where politicos say we can’t afford x (usually education, research, infrastructure spending and the like) while enthusiastically supporting much, much larger amounts of spending on the military industry and various corporate welfare or banking bailouts - the places the lobbying money and/or revolving door cushy after-government-service jobs are.
This graph on the US annual discretionary spending gives some perspective.
GeorgeOfTheJungle:
--- Quote from: mtdoc on January 17, 2018, 06:48:08 pm ---
This graph on the US annual discretionary spending gives some perspective.
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Wow. Amazing. For comparison, spending in defence in Spain is about half of the green slice:
source: http://www.sepg.pap.minhafp.gob.es/sitios/sepg/es-ES/Presupuestos/pge2017/Documents/LIBROAMARILLO2017.pdf
T3sl4co1l:
FYI, these are different graphs. This is an error frequently made, even by the media.
This is total fed spending. It looks much more similar:
https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/total_spending_pie%2C__2015_enacted.png
Tim
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