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I'd say about 25%. Am I correct?
indeed!
Anyone whose name implies bombing another country deserves to be sent to that country for a week to live a day in the life. Try reading a book or two before you post your rambling comments...
I know for a fact, for a darn fact, that the majority of people in Iran want the country to assimilate with the world. It is the conservative hard-liners and religious nuts of that country that preach hatred and misunderstanding.
well.....yes you are....and believe it or not ...over 70 percent of our gdp is based on sales ect. inside the US..so we are masters of our own domain.....so to speak
Sales of chinese products. Masters of a pile of debt. Haha
20%
15%
19.5%, the only larger is EU but that is a collection of countries. second to us is China.
The EU is not a country.
Actually they are called states. Which is why we are called the United STATES of America
You are ignoring the fact that EU nations retain full sovereignty, unlike in the United States. They are a political and economic alliance, NOT a centralized government.
If I recall, the last time most of the European countries were united, it wasn't good for a lot of people.
The EuroZone is treated like a country economically, because they use one currency.
15%
About 25%
27%
100%
It's more like: "how much d you know about the United States?"
If the U.S. is doing that well, and even Turkey added more jobs, then who is getting all that money? Certainly not the average person; maybe it is all in the pockets of Romney, Gingrich, Paul, and Santorum, or at least their best friends.
like 18.345373734673454352343242362362362362%
such stupid question without relevance
Another imbecile heard from. Go back to watching Dancing with the Stars, half-wit.
20% and 60% if you include Obama's "trickle down" debt.
blah blah blah blah obama bad blah blah blah blah
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Wah, what do this be?
II think it's the instruction manual for that TV I bought at Wal-Mart.
20% since 2005 but it was a whopping 40% in 1980.
NO question about it...the US is going down the tubes!!!
Gee do you think that borrowing a TRILLION DOLLARS to fight the Iraq war and then keeping interest rates low to pay all those plumbers electricians and masons in a housing distortion so they could continue to be in the middle class in what was the largest welfare expenditure our country has ever seen or maybe the mother of all welfare systems which is keeping government employees like soldiers cops and firefighters who aren't productive enough to earn their wages and benefits, do you think THOSE things had anything to do with us having a wrecked economy? PULEEZ, giving token welfare to some ghetto kids did it? Acorn? Wanting low income, no credit people to be homeowners did it? Try all the non-college educated "service" government employees who don't manufacture anything to export tht we pay for their salaries, benefits, kids benefits, education, health care etc. until the day they die. You know who I'm talking about- cops firefighters emts soldiers border patrol coast guard etc etc etc etc. You think Romney will cut any of those jobs too? Those sacred cows? I dont think so. And we will mudde along with these massive government expenditures and people like you will blame Acorn and won't want to cut a single penny from defense. You're right, this country is going down the tubes, but you haven't got the balls to admit the real reasons why.
u mad bro?
Can u tell?
Yeah i watch Fox News too!
Our annual $2.4 Trillion in social programs is no "token welfare to ghetto kids." Income security programs, retirement insurance, medicaid, medicare, school subsidies, and community relief programs are expensive as hell. These are many times larger than our military spending, and in fact way more expensive than the rest of our government spending combined. It is, in fact, impossible to reduce our debt as long as we have these social programs, because they consume more money - before we even consider the other government expenditures - than our entire annual tax receipts.
Dumlord, you are simply wrong. The US spends about the same on social programs as other leading industrialized nations. 16% of GDP. The issue we should be concerned with is how much we get out of that 16%. Why do other countries have free universal healthcare from that 16% where we do not? The debt comes from somewhere else. It is a nice myth, and very convenient to blame social programs, but the fact is that it is just not true. http://www.politicususa.com/en/debt-social-programs
I don't really know how much, but if the US economy goes down. Every other places go down as well.
25% of world is USA. Because it is a very strong very well regulated, and organized economy. It is gradually improving under Obama. No new republican idiots, please.
You are the idiot if you think Obama is helping this economy. No I do not think republicans would be better. But you are still an idiot.
Please struggle to avoid any other republican idiot to destroy this great country more, if this is what you want!
Exactly. For all of you who think Obama is doing such a bad job, look at what he inherited from Bush. The worst economy since the great depression, 2 wars...
The fact that things even stabilzed and are beginning to turn around is a credit to his administration.
If another Republican had one the election, we would have sunk in a depression for sure.
Americans are so short-sighted. They believed Obama would come in and wave his magic wand and everything would be better. When it didn't happen, they labled him a failure.
Things are improving, and will continue to steadily improve as long as he is re-elected.
If Romney wins... Game over. We're done.
Beings the Dems havent given a budget for three years, and couldnt accomplish ANYTHING under a totally controlled house, senate, and congress. I would think having the republicans in control of congress etc are whats helping
Bush is no more responsible for the failing economy than Obama is for repairing it. they dont have that much power no matter what you think.
You do have some good points. I did not vote for Bush his second term, but I sure am not going to vote for Obama his second term. An indecisive leader. He over spent $6 trillion dollars in the first three years in office. He is way to liberal for me. He is more concerned with the perception of Muslims and the advancement of gay rights, then with the good of America. So, no vote from me.
To tell the truth, I think 25% of the world's economy is quite exaggerated in favor at this tie of getting Obongo re-elected and probably figures embellished by CNN. The exact figure is more like 10%!
So sad, when your presidents lie, they get us involved in wars tht take thousands of American lives unnecessarily and the government lies to us about nuclear and biological weapons that don't exist. But somehow in that warped little, shriveled mind you think that lying about GDP is worse! No wonder you people keep losing. And losing. And losing. Oop 2010 was a win. Uh oh and keep losing. And keep losing .............
BTW the range that I go to when practicing with my G27 is FULL of liberals. Range owner is a real GOPer ( you can tell because he's old), he rambles on about Obama. We all make fun of him when he leaves us alone in our lanes. Yes even we have infiltrated into the very core of conservatism, the neighborhood shooting range. And you ain't seen nuttin yet.
I hope they close down firing ranges with nuts like you out there.
That has to be a first, Qatari. A conservative wanting to restrict access to firearms, and you worry about the Dems touching your guns? Forget the fact that the federal government has refused to take away your guns regardless of the party in charge. Sometimes I forget that the Tea Party only wants the government out of their lives when it benefits them. It's more than acceptable to regulate everyone else's lives in that twisted little world view. Sometimes I wonder why I'm still a conservative. People like you really screw up our reputation.
No. It's 25%. But since you're obviously a tea party, hillbilly Creationist piece of GOP trash, you'll believe whatever you want.
The main embellishment of Obongos carreer is winning the Nobel Peace Prize. He won it for NOTHING...not one dayum thing. That is the biggest single piece of embellishment of the past century! The biggest LIE to date!
What new nervous tics are you going to develop after Obama gets re-elected in 9 months?
The country better stock up on heart attack medicine because a lot of old geezers are going to be dropping when the election results come in! "Mildred! Aaaaggggghhhhh. My chest!"
23.5%
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About 18% I think, and it is going to shrink ;((
9 out of 10 – woo hoo!
Its 22%. 14/61 * 100
9/10 me so smart
Its not that the US is going down... its just natural dynamics... The playing field is being internationally leveled... seeing this as a problem reflects entirely what is wrong with American arrogance
After what GWB and the GOP did to our economy I believe it ranked 0.00% three years ago. However with President Obama's sound economic leadership, perhaps it is now 18% of the world's economy!
Oh, you forgot that In January 2009, the national debt stood at $10.6 trillion. Fueled by the so-called stimulus, this debt grew by $3.6 trillion in just two years. The magnitude of this amount is difficult to grasp without a comparison. Under Mr. Obama, government has been borrowing $4.6 billion each and every day. Try again.
You rightwing trailer trash just need to get over the fact that America has elected a black President and you better get used to it because he's going to get reelected. Hahahahaha!
We are bankrupt because of the two wars in which we netted in minus billions and made China our financial boss.. We are now financing the whopping deficit by using our retirement money at very little cost because the Central Bank is giving money free to banks and market. We do not know if this would work. If it works we will get out of bankruptcy in about 5 years. Till then our savings are worth nothing. Before war we shared almost 30 percent of world economy. Now may be 15%.
It continues to amaze me how many people function everyday without understanding basic facts. Right, Left, Center, Fringe, R, D, or something else politically if is still important if you are going to spout off your comments to base it on basic facts. No one "made up" the GDP numbers, no one "made up" budgets, facts – remain facts.
got 10/10... news junkie
50% without Google's help, should have done better.
Why is it that every single time I read an article on CNN that maybe has even the tiniest amount to do with politics there are so many people who are bashing one political party and others bashing the other party? I wonder how all of these bloggers are so incredibly smart that they KNOW what caused every problem and how to fix every problem and know that the party that they don't like is the one to blame. It gets very tiring to read that over and over again. For now on, I think I need to quit reading these blogs. Too many people on here that are much smarter than me.
Amen to that. I enjoy reading different points of view, but juvenile name calling gets boring real fast
Completely agree.
You need to stop putting your middle leg in cow rears.
Heres one that almost nobody gets correct:
What country is the Unitred States largest trading partner, by many fold over the 2nd largest
Canada
Very good. And few people also know that Canada is our biggest supplier of oil. I bring this up because I work with an ex Canadian who is always p,.o'd over the fact that we totally ignore Canada and what goes on there. Maybe he has a point.
15 to 16 %...
what is israel supposed to do when iran openly states that its goals to wipe israel off the map ?By the way when opponents of israel state that it has nuclear weapons they fail to mention that israel has NEVER stated its intention to wipe out ANY country.That is a HUGE difference.
How about .... NOT come crying to us for help?
First, we are depend on Isreal for our stablity not otherwise. And if one nation is threaten against any nation, It's United Nation and z world issue not just the U.S. and Isreal.
A MILLION.
22%.
Does it really matter? I remember a Peanuts cartoon about Snoopy jogging. As he jogged, the arms started arguing with the head and legs about who was the most important and which part of the body was doing the most work. After a lot of debate, the heart suddenly shouted, "Everyone shut up or I'll quit!!"
A couple of frams of silent running ensued, then the brain said, "That's scary". The reality is that no matter how much or how little the actual percent of the world's economy belongs to the US, if we "quit" it will be a scary world.
15%
Thanks to the most expensive congress (Democrat, 111th) and president (Obama) in world history, who added an additional $5 trillion to our nat'l debt in less than 3 years, I'd say our % of the world economy is significantly less! ....Clinton's fanni & freddi housing bubble didn't help either!
60% (hyper-inflation due to illegal drugs)
42%
I know this is not related to this topic but i have a question for those who think iran is a threat, On wat bases are you saying they are the biggest threat for the World
America's main export is war, it's big money and big business. I was raised as a Pacifist and I can't understand why so many of my fellow Americans seemingly aren't horrified by all the innocent people that are slaughtered around the world by our government. This fact, and knowing that the government is now run by corporations instead of the voters, makes me feel despair about the future. Wow, if I ran the world, I'd do everything I could do to have peace and equality. I have my degree in Literature and Literature majors tend to be Idealists but I know there must be other Idealists out there so that offers me some comfort. This is my personal opinion anyway.
America went down the tubes immediately after all those tax cuts for the wealthy who were supposed to create jobs"in this country".We were doing fine until then,"social programs and all".Tax cuts for the wealthy do not work.The wealthy put their tax cuts in Swiss bank accounts,outsourced the jobs and hired illegal immigrants to do their gardening.Don't even try to shift the blame to Obama and "socialism.It's the wealthy little snits that inherited money from daddy that do all this crying about "handouts"to the poor.Those who never had to deal with poverty seem to be the greediest.Too much money in the hands of a few is what is corrupting congress, the supreme court,banks and wall street.We always had socisl programs and America was great.And for all so-called religious conservatives,Jesus, Moses,Mohammed and the rest of them were all socialists so don't spout your religious crap at the same time you turn your back on the poor.Obama 4 more years.Tax the rich at the old
The reason our debt is so high is because some people don't pay their fair share of taxes like they usedto before George Bush.They used all that extra money to create jobs.Apply in China.HaHaHa.