On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:03:20 -0400, Gary Coffman
wrote:

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:07:08 GMT, Gunner wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 06:27:29 -0400, Gary Coffman
wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 05:55:38 GMT, Gunner wrote:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 07:58:26 +0800, Old Nick
wrote:
hmmmm...The US accounts for 30% (?? maybe it's only 20%, ot does not
matter) of the world's resource consumption, with about 5% of the
population. Imagine something like 20% of the population doing the
same.

Something you lads always forget to mention. Please add to you lineny
above..the percentage of the worlds goods provided by the US with that
30% consumption figure.

World GDP (2001 US dollars) $47,000,000,000,000
US GDP (2001 US dollars) $10,400,000,000,000

Gary

This tells me what? That we are making 20% of the goods for the
entire planet and are using 30% of its resources to do so?

Break it down so that a poor ignorant cowboy can understand it, will
ya?

How much of that 30% of the worlds hard resources, is returned to the
rest of the world, in hard goods and services, directly and
indirectly, outside of the US, is a good start in your explaination.

Total value of US exports (2001) $731,000,000,000. Or put another
way, about 7% of the US economic output is exported. The largest
aggragate proportion of that is agricultural products, timber, and
other raw materials. In other words, exports with very little value
added by labor.

Gary

Ok, and how much of the "goods and services" are related to military
protection of other nations, with money spent in those nations, plus
that covered by the umbrella effect? A sizable fraction of our
military expenditures are dollars spent in other nations on
infrastructure alone. Do you have any figures for that?
How about benefits other nations derive from our R&D expenditures,
plus spin offs in medicine, space etc etc?

Not arguing, just wondering if the GDP really is an accurate indicator
of how that alleged 30% of world resources is used solely for the good
of Americans.

Gunner

"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle
behind each blade of grass." --Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto