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On Thursday Oct 28 at 4:20 pm Jeannette Fuhr wrote: < about the cost to the nation of <Parkinson's disease and the question, "How will your <administration budget <the needed funding to find a cure/cause/preventation of this very <costly disease?" > AND on Thursday Oct 28 at 5:46 pm. William Heitman responded with... <Realistically, we are but a curiosity, but that doesn't mean we can't <be <mentioned. The scenario in which we might shine is as an <example of what can <be done with a little "investing." <Al Say Bill, do you know that a bunch of li'l Ole Parkies <suggested to me <a way to save 68.5 million dollars a day? <Bill: No but that isn't all that much in the scope of things.> <Al: I dunno, 68.5 million a day here, 68.5 million a day there, and <pretty <soon you are talking a couple of B-2s or nuc subs, or a month's <stay in <Bosnia. They even want me to address their listserver by e-mail…> Hmmmm... Based on Microsoft's current stock price, Bill is worth $70.74 billion dollars. (A billion is 1000 million)... ...Since Boeing 747-400 Commercial planes are each worth $156 million dollars, Bill could afford to buy 453 of them. OR... since America currently has approx. 760,000 homeless people living on the streets (and who knows how many of them have PD), Bill could afford to give each one of them $93,074.50 . OR... since, on Oct 2, the World Population Clock clicked onto the 6 billion mark, Bill could afford to give all 6 billion people now living on the planet $11.74 ... and the best part is that Bill would still have $44.5 million dollars left over to support his family. OR... if Bill can maintain his current fiscal growth rate of 52.04%, it is estimated that by February of 2006, Bill will become a trillionaire. How many PD research centres would that fund? Oh......wait a minute...did I get my Bills mixed up...ooops...nevermind. By the way here's a t-shirt slogan to consider..."pass the bill or pass the buck on PD research". Joan U. (I think I've had tooo much coffee)