[WS:] True, but but anti-government rhetoric touches a raw nerve in this political climate, so pardon me for being a bit jumpy.
But the figure that you quoted $6.4 trillion is just not believable, BEA quoted less than $5 trillion, and if you take out transfers - which are not spending - the actual amount spent by government is far less - see my reply to Doug.
Wojtek
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:43 PM, James Heartfield
<Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 'Yet, the self-styled state-hating lefties like James Heartfield have no qualms of disseminating this right wing propaganda as long as it fits their anti-state ideology. Shame on you.'
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> Keep your hair on, Wojtek, I did not disseminate, I asked 'can this be right'?
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> And according to original cite Paul Krugman's second post in the NYT, spending is 36 per cent of GDP, rather more than the 20 per cent that you raise up as the correction to the wicked website (that seemed to be using the same numbers as Mr Krugman), notwithstanding his proper point about fractions.
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> No shame on me, I think.
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