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A collection of "News Headlines" from Google presented as a syllabus of important connected facts. Business: More Americans investing in stock Sep 27, 2002 ... A record 49.5 percent of all U.S. households own individual stocks or stock mutual funds, according to a survey being released today by the Investment Company ... But stocks have not made average Americans wealthy. ... People's Daily Online -- Eighty-five-percent stock investors ...
It would seem fewer and fewer of the youger generation have the inclination or curiosity to explore beyond "sound bites" fed an a daily basiis by the mass media. Not so surprising in a world evolved to the point of "Information Overload". How can we best handle this overload ! IMO Virtually all information and learning is provided to us by "Connections" and "comparisons" obtained through our eyes, ears, and the mouths of others. ...
Member Since: Sep 2007 Location: south west usa Posts: 1,558 Blog Entries: 53 Infractions: 2/0 (0) Re: Obama Falsely Claims That AARP Has Endorsed Health Care Legislation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHY the AARP would hesitate to endorse OBAMA"s plan !!!!! The AARP makes its money by "extracting" a percentage ...
These are the latest figures. I have checked. Are people saying FactCheck.Org is wrong. The number is a bit dated but there no reason it shouldn't hold. In 2002 GDP was 10,000 Billion and 13.9 was spent on health. Which gives a number of 1,390 billion spent on health in 2002. $6 billion was given out in malpractise suits in 2002. Source :http://www.factcheck.org/article133.html Which gives 0.43% of total health expenditure. ...