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Thirdly, you constantly (despite my pointing it out) continue to use the numbers from 2010 to show a general trend. You CAN NOT use them for such a thing BECAUSE OF THE BIG FUCKING RECESSION THAT OCCURRED! Even for your Great Depression analogy, when government spending went up to a new level at th...

Thirdly, you constantly (despite my pointing it out) continue to use the numbers from 2010 to show a general trend. You CAN NOT use them for such a thing BECAUSE OF THE BIG FUCKING RECESSION THAT OCCURRED! Even for your Great Depression analogy, when government spending went up to a new level at th...

Again, slow (but higher than federal spending only) increase until about the mid-1980's, and staying flat after that - as a percentage of the economy. Your graph is a long term trend of increasing government spending (even in your %-of-total-GDP terms which understate it due to the reason previousl...

Um, I didn't include additional references, as they were from the same source as the figures I had already mentioned - the exact same sites you just mentioned, so again here are the important graphs: Total Government Spending: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/usgs_line.php?title=Total%20Spending...

So again, looking at the situation from 2000 to 2007, the deficit accumulated during that time was due to dropping revenue, not rising spending. No, not even during your 2000-2007 period example. During 2000: $3.706 trillion government revenues, which were 55% as much as the $6.712 trillion non-gov...

The important part to look at is spending and revenue compared to GDP Even your own graph illustrates federal spending going from 18% of GDP to 25+% of GDP from 1999 through recently, and meanwhile total government spending went from 32.65% in 1999 to 44.48% in 2010. However, looking at spending as...

Anything involving millions of people or significant for millions of people, from automobile transportation to construction workers, involves a non-zero statistical number of accidents over the decades. For instance: 104000 occupational injury deaths amongst civilian workers 1980-1997, around six th...

The following image summarizes that quite well: You're neglecting the rest of the picture, with a graph showing only part of 4 selectively-chosen years and not the general spending bills over the twenty year period. I'll add more on that a bit later. So, basically, the Republicans (with massive sup...

It is believed at least 180,000 gallons of contaminated water was released from the plant on April 9, 2009, through two small holes in separate pipes. There is evidence that contamination 50 times higher than DEP standards has now reached the Cohansey aquifer, a significant drinking water resource ...

That 200+ billion surplus is an act of accounting fraud btw. The government follows different rules than would be legally acceptable for a corporation with regard to counting unfunded future liabilities, which would make the deficit figures worse than shown and eliminate the brief surpluses if diff...

http://unastronaut.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/120m4471.jpg?w=500&h=400 Laws including budgets are written and passed by the legislative branch (Congress), not the President; the influence of the executive branch is lesser (some veto capabilities). For instance, the House was under a Democratic...

If Yahweh has sufficient power, he could have been triggering whatever pleasure centers of his brain directly. All the bonuses of crack without any of the negatives! Except for the utter lack of desire to do anything but sit there and listen to the pretty music. In fact that's probably a pretty goo...

EMP seems like one of those cool ideas that never sees any practical use. Certainly the popular press can exaggerate the near-term matter, often having articles seen to be misleading at best upon a little further review. For instance, explosively-driven flux compression generators have a frequency ...

That is a totally different system of racial profiling since (at least my understanding of it) is that it's an ad hoc procedure evaluated by officers on the ground as opposed to a top-down model that systematicaly identifies combinations of characteristics that are associated with terrorism. <snip>...

The results devastated the local industry, investment dried up, drilling rigs and workers moved south of the border, Calgary real estate prices plummeted as unemployed owners turned them back to the banks. That's not surprising. In general, after-tax profits matter not only for motivation but also ...

Question : How does a money sink at the bottom of Venus's gravity well help achieve that ? Timeframe : Preferably less than 100 years. You know and I know the potential of space itself. But 99% of the public does not. (Why would they, when all mainstream sci-fi tv shows and movies depict dependence...

Is there a chance that this disaster significantly increase the oil price in next few years? Although the Gulf of Mexico is a limited portion of the overall world supply, that the president has issued a moratorium on new drilling is significantly affecting futures prices, such as for the market's p...

Has anything like this ever happened naturally? Like if there was seismic activity that opens up a way for a pocket under pressure to get out. Even if it wasn't on the same scale, I'd think someone somewhere would have noticed oil on the sea, or maybe there could be some kind of evidence for it hap...

Firstly, I took his source and even thanked him for it but was hoping for some alternate sources as well. You know, just for extra reference. Any web pages or something. Well, here is one example: http://www.ausairpower.net/ASPC-E-Bomb-Mirror.html In that example a single 900 kg EMP bomb's explosiv...

But we still have an approximate idea of how much natural gas is affordably recoverable, even though the bulk of it is not surveyed to exactly that degree yet. The government's EIA has determined that natural gas resources, affordable under present economics, amount to around 1750 TCF within the U....

That's because the US had a big discovery spree in the late 1970's, and those discoveries hadn't yet been added to the proven reserves. <snip graph> That Mr. Laherrere guy again? I want some of what he's smoking! Looking at the way he has the area under both curves near equal, etc, and looking at t...

I can't speak of the US since I'm not as familiar with their industry, but the projections for Canada look far too optimistic. The projections graph I posted is also within an official 2020 outlook document of the Canadian government, page 29 . You may disagree, but it is approximately the standard...

The real questions in this debate are not whether peak oil is happening (or will happen), but rather economic: Fundamentally, yes. Not everyone would use the term "peak oil" with its associated connotations, but, of course, nobody thinks oil is unlimited, with this being a matter of at le...

For instance, "current worldwide average recovery rates for oil are roughly 35%," while they later in figure 2.17 on page 62 show that surfactants can raise recovery percentages within a field to 75%, although not done during a time of low oil prices due to a relatively high cost of $90 (...

The peak for conventional crude was 2005, the all liquids peak was 2008. From your own chart and all other data I have seen, we're still not back to 2008 levels for all liquids nor 2005 levels for conventional crude. http://omrpublic.iea.org/DashBoard/supply.gif There are other interpretations of t...