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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (481971)	10/27/2003 12:03:13 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

GDP counts debt spending as a positive and environmental destruction for profit as a positive. Buth are negatives. And more deficit spending just creates a larger illusion. Nobody even knows how huge our debt is now. We're just spending and spending on everything but needy people and the environment.

To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (481971)	10/27/2003 12:13:08 AM
From: JBTFD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

One thing I would like to point out is that the government figures for poverty are based on income for a particular number of dependents in the family. I think a more accurate measure may be to define those who have a net worth of less than, say $20,000 as poor. My guess is this criteria would put the poverty number a lot higher. This site: cityvisioninc.org says that 31% of US households have no net worth to speak of.