lies, damned lies, and statistics
July 15, 2003
a couple of eye-openers from the latest Harper's Index:
- Amount the Defense Department has lost track of, according to a 2000 report by its inspector general: $1,100,000,000,000
- Ratio of this amount to the rest of the world's military budgets combined: 2:1
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