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Brain -> Bachmann Offers Big Numbers, Little Proof (3/28/2010 8:52:06 PM)
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Neocons don't have to offer proof because facts don't actually matter to these people. All they need to believe is that anyone left of center is the enemy. So, regardless of the facts, the enemy must be resisted.
Bachmann Offers Big Numbers, Little Proof
Minnesota Republican Says Gov't Controls Majority of U.S. Economy, and She Plans to Repeal Health Care
By David Riedel
CBS) In the past when talking about the health care bill that was just signed into law by President Obama, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has referred to the bill as "tyranny."
On Sunday, she told "Face the Nation" anchor Bob Schieffer she meant it.
"[N]ow we have the federal government taking over ownership or control of 51 percent of the American economy. This is stunning. Prior to September of 2008, 100 percent of the private economy was private."
Ms. Bachmann offered no facts to back up her assertion that the government owns or controls 51 percent of the U.S. economy.
According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis data since 1929, the highest percentage of government spending as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product was during World War II when government spending was 47.9 percent (in 1944). The lowest level of government spending as a percent of GDP was 9 percent in 1929 at the outset of the Great Depression.
At no time during this period was the United States' GDP 100 percent private.
The 2009 level of federal government spending was 20.6 percent.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/28/ftn/main6341097.shtml
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