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From: Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: PING! Michael
Date: 30 Nov 2024 21:41:52 GMT
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On 2024-11-28, Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com> wrote:

> Since you're fixated on food, here's the food we import from Canada,
> in *billions*:
>
> $4.13 meat
> $3.13 fish
> $3.05 edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
> $2.71 vegetable, fruit, nut food preparations
> $2.10 miscellaneous edible preparations
> $2.04 cocoa and cocoa preprations
> $1.98 live animals
> $1.72 cereals
> $1.51 beverages, spirits, and vinegar
> $1.17 meat, fish, and seafood preparations
> $1.04 sugars and sugar confectionery
> $0.83 oil seed, oleagic fruits, grain, seed, fruits
> $0.60 coffee, tea, mate, and spices
> $0.59 edible fruits, nuts, peel of citrus fruit, melons
> $0.28 dairy products, eggs, honey, edible products

Without totaling it all up, that looks to be about 25 billion, 
or spit in a bucket. We piss away 3 billion a day on national debt 
interest, because elected officials and their minions are so good
at money management and the concept of debt to income.