END OF WARS (Part 8)

The following is excerpted from Chapter 1 of SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Humanity:

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What about the United States of America?

Let me skip the history of the USA, and start with a comparative table:


..........................World ....................United States

Age ...............Dawn of Humanity .......232 years
.....................(150,000 BC or so)

Size (land) ....510 million sq km ......10 million sq km
Population .....6,700 million ................310 million

GDP................$66,000 billion ..........$13,000 billion

GDP/Capita ...$10,200 .......................$44,000

Military...........$1,320 billion ................$528 billion

Military

as %GDP .............2% ..............................4.1%

Americans are:

o 80% White, 15% Hispanic, 13% Black and 4.4% Asian. By 2050 it will be 50% White and 24% Hispanic.

o Until 1960 less than 5% of births were to unmarried women. Today, this figure is approaching 40%.

o Per 1000 Americans: 370 believe in ghosts, 250 deem flying saucers as being real, 126 live in poverty, 122 are 65 or older, 50-100 doubt the existence of a God (which means 900 to 950 believe) 27 are cashiers ($16,260 average salary), 23 are in prison, 4 are lawyers ($98,930 average salary) and 1 is in kindergarten

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The Dow Jones Industrials sunk 219 to 8604 and world markets were mixed. Oil further dropped more than $3/barrel to $36.36. Gold fell $14.30 to $853.
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Former Typhoon Dolphin in the West Pacific is dissipating, but is lashing Iwo To with a lot of rain.
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