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Date Posted: 04/ 5/07 10:29:36pm
Author: Achilles
Author Host/IP: 75.26.3.213
Subject: from the April edition of Harper's magazine

* Rank of the People's Bank of China among the world's most profitable banks last year was---1!!
* Total value of US government contracts in 2000 that were handed out without competitive bidding: $91 billion. Total last year: $170.9 billion.
* Ratio in 1999 of the number of US federal employees to the number of private employees on government contracts: 15 to 6. Ratio last year: 14 to 15.
* Estimated amount that US adults who grew up poor cost the economy each year through increased crime: $170 billion. Estimated amount they cost the economy through higher health care costs: $160 billion.
* Fine paid in 2006 by a company building the US border fence in a guilty plea for hiring illegal immigrants: $4.7 million.
* Amount by which the salary of Judge Judy exceeds the salaries of all 9 Supreme Court justices combined: $26,000,000.

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