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Thread: Dismantling an empire
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22nd June 2010, 03:26 #141
Just to be clear, race aficionado, we spend about 4.7% (FY2010) of our GDP on the military. The 41.5% is our percentage of the global total.
For the sake of comparison, Russia spends about 3.5% of GDP on its military. China spends about 2%. Taiwan (right next door to the Chicomms) spends about 2.1%. The UK spends right at 2.5%. France, 2.3%. Germany and Canada, both at 1.3%. Mexico, 0.5%. Those are 2008 figures.
But to your point, yes, roughly half of the military spending in the world is being done out of the pockets of the American taxpayer. If you really want to feel good about the future, I'll put up some info detailing how no developed nation has ever survived for very long once its infrastructure began to crumble. Guess what's been happening in the U.S. for the past 20+ years?"Every generation's memory is exactly as long as its own experience." --John Kenneth Galbraith
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