Friday, May 01, 2009

Entrant #13 - Captain Capitalism's 2009 Annual Chart Contest

7 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:20 AM

    This chart needs to have terrorism on it. Then we need a chart that tracks dollars spent per death per cause, and we'll see that we spend $4 on heart disease per death, and $1111111111125130259810598120591509185 per terrorism related death. That doesn't sound like small government libertarianism to me.

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  2. "That doesn't sound like small government libertarianism to me"

    That's because you clearly don't have an understanding of the concept.

    Think of it this way:

    Your local police department spends $800,000,000 paying salaries for 20,000 police officers. They also spend $3,000,000 to buy everyone in the city an ice-cream cone. Now, by your logic, since the per-case cost of salaries works out to $40,000, while the per-case cost of ice cream cones works out to $1, clearly the police department should fire all of the police officers and spend all it's money buying more ice cream cones.

    That's your idea of small government liberalism, is it?

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  3. Anonymous would rather spend all that money on unconstitutional social welfare programs than on programs that are actually in the Constitution, like the military.

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  4. Scott7:49 AM

    Perhaps you could make some interesting charts using this data http://www.eriposte.com/economy/other/demovsrep.htm

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  5. [IMG]http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k294/scottzerosix/GDP.gif[/IMG]

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  6. My first try at charting, could be worse

    http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k294/scottzerosix/GDP.gif

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  7. Scott

    Did you correct for inflation?

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