Monday, August 03, 2009

Do bears crap in the woods?

Is America building a purely military economy?

In the past nine years, non-industrial production in the US has declined by some 19 percent. It took about four years for manufacturing to return to levels seen before the 2001 recession -- and all those gains were wiped out in the current recession.

By contrast, military manufacturing is now 123 percent greater than it was in 2000 -- it has more than doubled while the rest of the manufacturing sector has been shrinking.

1 comment:

  1. Well…yeah…but they use Charmin afterwards.

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