From: Ryan M Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Jun 13 2002 - 10:00:37 PDT
At 5:32 PM +0100 6/13/02, Jim Webster wrote:
>
>Only in the usa :-)
>
>I was reading an article in the newspapers the other day and was
>struck by the fact that the USA seems to have 25% of everthing....
>
>25% of the worlds prison population
>25% of the worlds lawyers
>25% of the worlds ozone destroying industrial plant
>
>Its like you guys reach a 25% level and then say 'okay thats enough' :-)
Its not easy being the Americans, but someone has to do it...
>
>Mind you I think you should consign whoever is cloning all those
>lawyers to the prison population....
>
Some day we're going to get rid of that wasteful 25% (almost a third)
of our population. Then we'll be better off....But where to send
them... ;-)
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