greetings, keith. you were right there with the appropriate citations to the subject at hand. it's beginning to look like that is "as per usual". i don't know how you do it.
In a message dated 6/6/05 10:31:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << The share of the nation's income earned by those in this uppermost category has more than doubled since 1980, to 7.4 percent in 2002. The share of income earned by the rest of the top 10 percent rose far less, and the share earned by the bottom 90 percent fell..." >> yep. as u.s. population approaches 300 million, around 8% of national income went to fewer than 150,000 individuals. quantitative proof that, in the immortal words of a recent president, "the state of our economy is strong". clearly "our" didn't mean all of ours. <<"Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?">> this was beyond a doubt already widespread within our borders since before the current conflict. i'm so glad you cited this source; it's important to draw this link. <<"The population of the United States comprises 5% of the world's population but its incarcerated population is equal to more than 25% of the world's prisoners.">> iirc our comsumption of the world's energy supply is similarly disproportionate. as is our share of greenhouse gas output. then that explains it, because it sure takes a lot of resources to deal with all those bad elements. . . . well, it's back to the regular work routine for me. maybe i'll have a chance to drop in during the week. otherwise, until the weekend. best, -chris "oh, no you DI-in't!" superman _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
