Re: Money is the solution
No it doesn't sound "pretty much the same". Solarflare was right to pull you up. Your numbers show a difference of between 0.4% and 2.7% of GDP (of around $2.8tn). Even at the bottom end of that scale that's a big actual amount. We're dealing with big numbers here - 0.4% counts.
That said, it's not the 0.4% you should care about. It's the difference as a proportion - i.e. 8.8 -> 9.2 is a difference of around 4%. 8.8 -> 11.5 is a whopping 23.5% difference.
It's all lies and damn lies, but in this case it doesn't matter which way you look at it - it's significantly less spend than those other countries.
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