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Facebook said this spending represented a tiny fraction of the political advertising on the platform during the 2016 campaign.
Indeed, for the week, online spending represented 7.4percentt of the $19.7 billion charged to Visa cards, up from 5.7percentt a year ago.
In the 1970s, nondefense discretionary spending represented about 5 percent of the gross domestic product; that is now down to about 2.5 percent.
For context, note that during Reagan's administration, government spending represented 20.7 percent of the country's gross domestic product, just above the country's longer-term average.
The 0.4percentt drop in overall construction spending represented the 11th decline in the last year and left total construction spending at $1.085 trillion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate.
That was well short of the peak reached in 1980, of 8.5percentt, but considerably higher than the share in 1998, a period of record low prices, when petroleum spending represented only 2.7percentt of economic output.
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But government spending represents the bigger threat.
Nor does the spending represent a technological revolution.
Currently, that spending represents 70% of the US intelligence budget.
The reduction in R&D spending represents a 48% decline.
In total, European military defence spending represents half that of the US.
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