On Jun 16, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Michael Foster wrote:
For example, the recent "meager" farm subsidy bill was $307 billion! That's $1000 for each person in the U.S., or roughly $2600 per household. How is this meager?
I just wrote: "I don't like to be picky, but I think that is roughly a dollar per person, or about $3 per household." Slight mistake on my part! Only 3 orders of magnitude! Do you have a reference on the above. That seems a bit high. Over what period?
Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
