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I was a science major, not math or economics, so I had to quickly google the definition of GDP to fully grasp the meaning of this article. The result of my ten minute self-education is that since government spending contributes to the gdp, the billions of dollars being spent in iraq could be artificially inflating its value, rendering the number a useless exaggeration of the truth. We may not be in a recession yet, but were dangerously close.
Actual production of SOMETHING (besides guns and corn products), instead of gluttonous consumption and expensive modern manifest destiny wars, will stabilize our economy and regain the respect of the rest of the world
