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2008-01-28 Fifth Column

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Posted by Mike 2008-01-28 10:37|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Even 90 tons per day works out to 8 1/3 lbs per person per day.

Still doesn't sound right.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2008-01-28 11:58|| 2008-01-28 11:58|| Front Page Top

#2 The Globe does not expect it's readers to do math. True believers are above all that...

Posted by tu3031 2008-01-28 12:15|| 2008-01-28 12:15|| Front Page Top

#3 90 tons is about 2 ounces per person or 200 calories for bleached wheat flour.

Posted by ed 2008-01-28 12:20|| 2008-01-28 12:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, they might want to eat something besides flour.

Do Gazans pay for or produce ANYTHING?
Is this the biggest welfare state on earth?
Is this moving them any closer to statehood?
Shouldn't people who get paid to worry about Gaza be asking questions like this?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-01-28 12:43|| 2008-01-28 12:43|| Front Page Top

#5 1. Do Gazans produce ANYTHING? $600 per capita (2003 est.) vs. $46,000 for the USA (2007 est.).
2. Is this the biggest welfare state on earth? Maybe, but Saudi Arabia would probably hold the title if you took away their oil.
3. Is this moving them any closer to statehood? No, but they can never be a stable state with their current values anyway.
4. Shouldn't people who get paid to worry about Gaza be asking questions like this? What type of intelligent person would want to be paid to worry about the likes of Gaza?

Posted by Darrell 2008-01-28 15:06|| 2008-01-28 15:06|| Front Page Top

#6 It's a bomb - grain elevators have made some spectacular and deadly explosions along the Mississippi River from time to time.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-01-28 21:59|| 2008-01-28 21:59|| Front Page Top

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