[jedi]

With 96% of the economy based on oil, that means 96% of the people get their livelihood from the oil money. Since there are 25 million people and an 875 dollar a year per capita standard of living if the people use ALL of that money, then that doesn't leave much for anything else, does it?

How much a year do you think each of those people should have to live on?

When most of that $20 billion goes to foreign contractors who don't hire Iraqis and who don't buy Iraqi goods, what do you think that does to the Iraqi economy?

[xzins]

If that money does not get down to the streets, then the Iraqi people starve.

They are not starving.