6/1/07

What Else Could 100 Billion Dollars Buy

The following is an excerpt of an article by Fidel Castro, from The Guardian:

I wonder how many doctors could be graduated in just one year with the one hundred billion dollars that Bush gets his hands on to keep on sowing grief in Iraqi and American homes.
Answer: 999,990 doctors, who could look after 2 billion people who today do not receive any medical care.

More than 600,000 people have lost their lives in Iraq and more than 2 million have been forced to emigrate since the American invasion began.

In the United States, around 50 million people do not have medical insurance. Countries of less development and more diseases have the least number of medical doctors: one for every 5,000, 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 or more people.

Add the starvation afflicting hundreds of millions of human beings; add to that the idea of transforming food into fuels; look for a symbol and the answer will be George Bush.

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