[rollei_list] Re: OT: Zeiss Agencies
- From: "RM WISER" <rwiser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:13:51 -1200
I wouldn't say the USA is war mongering but don't they get involved in just
about every world conflict of significance? Also the role of the USA is to
provide defense for many other countries.
Roger
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter K.
To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 6:36 AM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT: Zeiss Agencies
It means he is trying to paint the US as a war mongering nation. Statistics
used this way can show a very distorted view.
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This may have had some validity 20 years ago, but in a
global/outsourced economy, what exactly does this mean today?
Eric Goldstein
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:37 PM, FRANK
DERNIE<frank.dernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Not so. The US targets domestic suppliers for defen ce items. The
majority of the UK budget is probably spent in the US too.
>
>
> --- On Fri, 19/6/09, RM WISER <rwiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> From: RM WISER <rwiser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT: Zeiss Agencies
>> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Friday, 19 June, 2009, 12:22 AM
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Intersting! Most of this
>> stimulus is probably for
>> foreign countries.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> ----- Original Message
>> -----
>> From:
>> Douglas Nygren
>>
>> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Sent: Thursday, June
>> 18, 2009 1:04
>> AM
>> Subject:
>> [rollei_list] Re: OT: Zeiss
>> Agencies
>>
>> Here's a stimulus package in the U.S. that
>> doesn't get much
>> press:
>>
>> Top
>> 10 Military Spenders in 2008
>> (in
>> billions of dollars)
>> 1. United
>> States — 607.0
>> 2. China — 84.9
>> 3. France — 65.7
>> 4. United Kingdom — 65.3
>> 5. Russia — 58.6
>> 6. Germany — 46.8
>> 7. Japan — 46.3
>> 8. Italy — 40.6
>> 9. Saudi Arabia — 38.2
>> 10. India —
>> 30.0
>>
>> Source: Stockholm International Peace Peace Research
>> Institute
>>
>> Doug
>>
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