On Sep 9, 2009, at 4:56 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
Perhaps he was thinking of one where one or both of those items is
comparable per capita, with the "amount of dollars spent" perhaps
also adjusted for inflation? Or maybe the "amount of dollars
spent," iow, taken in in taxes, as a fraction of people's paychecks
(again adjusted for inflation) that is comparable to the fraction of
the paycheck taken out for taxes from the earnings of a person then
with a similar job, etc., (realizing that such comparisons are going
to be difficult because so many jobs today did not exist back then,
and some of the jobs that did exist back then are no longer to be
found . . . )?
Ronn!
Yes! I believe that the clarification of the possible meanings of the
word "sized" which you have provided are/ could be indeed perhaps what
the gentleman was suggesting. I would not be surprised however if he
took offense at any attempt at such clarification. There is
sufficient evidence in his recent long string of posts here that any
attempt by someone to clarify one's understanding of his comments by
paraphrasing same will result in a rebuke. Thank you for your
attempt, it has added to my understanding of the problem of
communicating clearly.
learner
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