[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Sounds good to me ;)

[Wil Cooley]

On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 13:47, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
 
> > We have 11 million or more Mexicans flooding in daily.
> 
> Well, if we just did a little more to promote the well-being of the
> Mexican people, we wouldn't have that problem.  Instead, we pass "free
> trade agreements" and close the borders to turn an entire nation into a
> third-world sweat-shop and nuclear wasteland for our cheap consumer goods
> and power.

This 11,000,000 figure is complete crap.  If this were true, there would
be 4,015,000,000 (11,000,000 * 365) people per year.  4 billion.  The
population of the entire country is less than 300 million (according to
the CIA World Fact Book
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html ).  More
accurate estimates are 3.5/1000 per year, which is approximately
1,050,000 people per year.

It's a little trick I like to call "math."
 
Wil
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