Why don't we start by taking care of our problems at home?  I'm getting
tired of taking care of the world.  We've become co-dependents...let them
figure it out...sometimes that's the only way kids learn.  And we're going
broke trying to help everyone...anybody seen their property tax increase
for next year?  Insurance premiums?  I just got both over the weekend.


John Lee, speaking for myself



At 12:53 PM 3/10/03 EST, Wirt Atmar wrote:
>Tim asks:
>
>> Here's a couple of wars we ought to get involved in.
>>  AIDS:  http://www.avert.org/worldstats.htm
>>  Malaria -:  http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/1InformationSheet03.pdf
>>
>>  Name one country that spends more on these two diseases than the US?
>
>As a percentage of GNP, most of Europe spends far more, as does Japan. The US
>has become rather stingy of late in any activity which might promote peace
>and well-being, world health being prime among them.
>
>Surprisingly, most of the US's contribution to world health now comes not
>from the Republican-led and administered Congress but from the Bill and
>Melinda Gates Foundation. The Foundation just announced another $200 million
>to fight malaria in Africa. See the eighth link down at:
>
>  http://www.weforum.org/site/homepublic.nsf/Content/Press+Releases+by+Date
>
>The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has plans to distribute $24 billion
>dollars over the next decade to combat the most severe of the world's
>diseases. The United States government has never begun to do anything of any
>similar magnitude.
>
>Wirt Atmar
>
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