William, I think you might find these links interesting.
Fiscal Year 2003 Defense Budget Testimony
SEC. RUMSFELD: For these reasons, President Bush has sent to Congress a 2003 defense budget request of $379 billion, a $48 billion
increase from the 2002 budget.
www.defenselink.mil...
Although UNOCAL isn't mentioned concerning piping afghanistan they do plan/want to pipe oil out of Uzbekistan. which may become an economic apex for
the 'stans in years to come. $$$ Billions?
Unocal and Delta plan to open an office in Tashkent, the Uzbekistan capital, in the near future. The studies under the new agreements are expected
to take six months to a year to finalize recommendations on pipeline infrastructure and production export volumes
www.unocal.com... clnews/96htm/110496.htm
The (ODP) Office for Domestic Preparedness in union w/ the (CDC) Center of Disease Control wishes to make preperations for public medical needs caused
by any terroristic events. They exspect to spend 1.7 billion to so so. Is the CDC a govt. funded agency? I'm not sure. check out
page 5 of this 12
page pdf doc. found on the official CDC webpage.
www.bt.cdc.gov...
As far as the trillions of dollars that were lost to many wealthy people... perhaps these were the same wealthy people who are presently being
fingered for insider trading? The real people who lost trillions were the small investers; those w/o a phone line to a CEO, and trusted the SEC was
doing their duty. And as you may know, a real great time to investment in the stock market is when the stock of poorly run companies drags the market
as a whole down; allowing those w/ an inside track to buy into solid companies.
... buy low sell high. Though, this time it was "sell high" (before 9-11) buy low (after we & Dick Chaney talk to ENNRON, and sic the SEC on the
companies we sold high!!! ) What a party ! 15 years is not a long time to wait for these types of investments to pay off. gee I really waxed on that
one.