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To: Clive
This is the kind of place where Obama is working to poor our tax money into under his"Global Poverty Act': $845 billion more for global poverty Democrat sponsors act OK'd by Senate panel that would cost 0.7% of gross national product.

Annual Cost of Improving the World
• $19 billion: Eliminates starvation and malnutrition globally.
• $12 billion: Provides education for every kid on earth.
• $15 billion: Provides access to water and sanitation.
• $23 billion: Reverses the spread of AIDS and Malaria
The Cost in Perspective
• $522 billion: U.S. Military budget this year.
• $484 billion: Cost of Iraq War thus far.
Sources: World Bank, National Priorities Project
5 posted on 06/14/2008 9:04:50 PM PDT by antonia ("Be the person your dog thinks you are....")
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Annual Cost of Improving the World
• $19 billion: Eliminates starvation and ...

So if we just pour some money into Zimbabwe with thugs like that running around, everything will be sweetness and light, or do the thugs just collect?

• $484 billion: Cost of Iraq War thus far.

cost of thug removal

14 posted on 06/15/2008 11:09:35 AM PDT by SiGeek
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