To all,

If the US presence in Iraq is really costing $4bn / mth, is it all spent on
the 'military forces' or does a percentage go to re-establishing industry
and commerce, health and education services, etc? If so then that's good.
How big is the annual Defence Budget? How much  is spent on Weapons R&D? How
much is being spent on the Space Station. These maybe are the ?'s one should
be asking.

Marco
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> This is not quite right.
> First, it seems failrly obvious that the economy could not sustain a drain
> which exceeds the productive capacity of each person by orders of
> magnitude. That is why I started checking the numbers.
>
> So,
> one billion is 1000 Million and lets do everything in millions.
> 4 Billion/month is 48B/year.
> Now take the 48,000Million$ and divide it by 300Millionpeople
> We get 160Million$ per million people or $160 per person.
>
> To me this result is really an argument for increased spending on Health
> issues, drugs coverage, etc., a change in emphasis.
>
> K. F. Etzold cg Carline
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> Regarding additional funding for NIH research.
> I hope someone who is better at math than I can check this out but,
> There are approximately 300 million people living in the US
> We are spending slightly over 4 billion dollars a month in Iraq w/o
> counting
> interest costs on that money or the lives that are being affected there.
> According to my math we are spending about $13,500 each month for each of
> the 300 million people in this country.
> If this is correct then that means we are spending about $162,000 per
> American per year for the Iraq adventure alone.
> I don't mean for this to be a political message but these numbers, if
> correct, really show where our priorities are.----- Original Message -----
> From: "Linda J Herman" <[log in to unmask]>
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> > Forwarded from PAN.
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> > From: "LauraJane Cohen" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: "Laura Jane Cohen" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:53:58 -0400
> > Subject: Feinstein NIH Amendment
> > Message-ID: <014801c34ba1$c5014b00$6801a8c0@d72b7f21>
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> > >From the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research Funding:
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> > We understand that Senator Dianne Feinstein is preparing to offer an
> > amendment to the FY 2004 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill when it
> > comes to the Senate floor later this week to add additional funding to
> > the
> > National Institutes of Health (NIH).  The Senate Appropriations
Committee
> > has proposed $27.982 billion for NIH, a $1 billion (3.7%) increase over
> > the
> > current year.
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> > Senator Feinstein's amendment would add an additional $1.3 billion to
the
> > NIH budget in FY 2004, which would bring the total to $29.282 billion,
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> > 8.5% increase.
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> > Since this amendment is not offset with any cuts to other programs, it
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> > support of this amendment by both Republicans and Democrats.
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> > amendment.
> > The Senate may begin debate on the Labor-HHS bill as early as this
> > evening,
> > and a vote on this amendment may occur as early as Wednesday.
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