"yeah, but then our defense industry would go down the tubes." And wouldn't that be a shame. The horror.
>From the article above This year's index also estimated that the impact of violence - as assessed in major part by the costs, such as budgets for defense and internal security - on the global economy in 2012 came to at least US$9.5 trillion, or 11% of the gross world product - nearly double the value of the world's total food production. "Were the world to reduce its expenditure on violence by approximately 50%," according to the index, "it could repay the debt of the developing world ($4.076 billion), provide enough money for the European stability mechanism ($900 billion) and fund the additional amount required to achieve the annual cost of the Millennium Development Goals ($60 billion)." I would imagine the estimates are actually lower than the real costs. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:364655 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
