To: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fuel price perspective
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 11:13:31 -0500
On May 31, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Don Bowen wrote:
The dollar is down for many reasons. A big one is the rest of the
world
looking at out unified budget debt and cringing. That debt is
somewhere
around $18T and growing.
My mother's husband sends me his copies of The Hightower Lowdown. This
is on the front of the May 2008 issue:
"Amount of total world military spending by U.S. 47
percent
BushCheney request for military spending in 2009
$600-700 billion
Military spending of 10 next top-spending countries combined $446
billion