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03-24-2004, 04:25 PM

I give you the following statistics from US government web sites without further comment:

43.6 million Americans were without health coverage in 2002 (The most recent year for which I could find statistics), an increase of 2.4 million from the year before.

According to the measurement technique used, anywhere between 12.1% to 20.4% of all Americans now live below the poverty line. 50% of those aged 65 and up live below the poverty line, as well as 17% of this nation’s children under age 6. http://www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/p...r&dtable5.html

The Justice Department’s Bureau of Statistics announced that while the US accounts for just 5% of the global population, 25% of the world’s prisoners are held in American prisons. On any given day, nearly one in eight black males aged 20 to 34 are in jail or prison. . About a quarter million mentally impaired inmates are also incarcerated in the nation's prisons.

Last year, the U.S. trade deficit was 4.5 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). In 2002, the trade deficit was 4.0 percent of GDP, and in 2001, it was 3.5 percent. Meanwhile, to give the example of just one Asian country, Korea’s trade with the world reached $373 billion during 2003, an 18.6 percent increase over 2002. During this period, Korea’s exports totaled $194 billion, an increase of 19.6 percent, and imports were $179 billion, an increase of 17.5 percent. As a result, Korea had a trade surplus of $15.5 billion, up from $10.3 billion in 2002. In 2003 U.S. trade imports from Korea totaled $37.0 billion, an increase of 3.9 percent from the year before.

http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/o...ve/current.pdf

There, there now. You just go back to sleep and don’t worry your pretty little head. The wolf will be at the door in the morning.

03-24-2004, 04:25 PM	#6
marichiko Guest Posts: n/a	To Smoothmoniker I give you the following statistics from US government web sites without further comment: 43.6 million Americans were without health coverage in 2002 (The most recent year for which I could find statistics), an increase of 2.4 million from the year before. According to the measurement technique used, anywhere between 12.1% to 20.4% of all Americans now live below the poverty line. 50% of those aged 65 and up live below the poverty line, as well as 17% of this nation’s children under age 6. http://www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/p...r&dtable5.html The Justice Department’s Bureau of Statistics announced that while the US accounts for just 5% of the global population, 25% of the world’s prisoners are held in American prisons. On any given day, nearly one in eight black males aged 20 to 34 are in jail or prison. . About a quarter million mentally impaired inmates are also incarcerated in the nation's prisons. Last year, the U.S. trade deficit was 4.5 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). In 2002, the trade deficit was 4.0 percent of GDP, and in 2001, it was 3.5 percent. Meanwhile, to give the example of just one Asian country, Korea’s trade with the world reached $373 billion during 2003, an 18.6 percent increase over 2002. During this period, Korea’s exports totaled $194 billion, an increase of 19.6 percent, and imports were $179 billion, an increase of 17.5 percent. As a result, Korea had a trade surplus of $15.5 billion, up from $10.3 billion in 2002. In 2003 U.S. trade imports from Korea totaled $37.0 billion, an increase of 3.9 percent from the year before. http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/o...ve/current.pdf There, there now. You just go back to sleep and don’t worry your pretty little head. The wolf will be at the door in the morning.