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To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888

If you want to maintain that the real value of total federal spending has remained constant since 1964, that's you're business. But you are living in fantasy land. If you cannot see how this effects the computation in question, and I have given you several chances, it is pointless to continue to argue the point.

I think that you are married to this deceptive argument because you think it helps you prove your point with regard to the need for increased defense spending. But people don't like being lied to, and such an obvious manipulation as this has the added offense of showing very little regard for the intelligence of the reader.


510 posted on 05/15/2005 4:15:51 PM PDT by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: gridlock

It is you who does not understand the concept of inflation and currency adjustments.

It is you who feels that $1.00 in 1966 is the same as $1.00 in 2005.

You fail in basic conceptual understanding of numbers, especially how that relates to Fed spending. Military spending is shrinking in REAL dollars and social welfare spending is increasing in REAL dollars. Those are facts.


511 posted on 05/15/2005 4:30:06 PM PDT by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888 (John Kerry--three fake Purple Hearts. George Bush--one real heart of gold.)
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