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To: Rock_nj who wrote (136472)	6/13/2004 11:50:21 AM
From: Noel de Leon	of 281500

To that you need to add the military oriented part of the industrial and educational sector. Not only in percentage of people involved but in percent of GNP. Then you get a feel for the size of the problem. "The defense industry now employs 2.2 million people, about 2% of the civilian workforce. In Fiscal Year 1999 the Department of Defense awarded $118 billion to contractors for goods and services." cdi.org In 1999 16% of the GNP was to be allocated to defense spending. csis.org I suspect that that number is much higher today.

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