- Capitalism and Alternatives -

Please show us the facts

In Reply to: wanna-be Green Berets posted by Mike Bednarz on September 09, 1997 at 02:04:25:

: I admit military spending should be little or null, a peoples militia, but using doctored statistacts to wind up anti-capitalists is going a bit too far.

I'd be interested to know how the folks who authored this link have doctored their statistics. OK, it's only 49%. But the folks authoring this page seem to have their facts together.

And I don't see how that part of the national debt that went to weapons spending counts as anything less than military spending. If you bought a car on credit, your loan payments would still count as "automotive spending," especially since the loan company could repossess the car if you defaulted on your commitment to paying back the loan. Granted, there's a different default procedure for governments. But it's still called default.

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