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Old 05-12-2008, 04:37 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by brackis1 View Post
28th out of 173. Take a look at the 27 countries "ahead" of us. Not a one is a major 1st world democracy.
I don't think this point helps your argument at all. You could make the case that other first world democracies are underspending...or rather...relying on U.S. spending to keep them from getting taken over (i.e. much of Europe, South Korea, Japan, etc).
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