Global demand to rise 4.1% annually through 2016

I was appalled to read in the UK Daily Express recently that we have been giving £280 million a year to India for “aid”.

Don’t get me wrong, I have no objection at all to us helping out other countries, even though we’re in pretty dire straits ourselves here in the UK. The thing that gets my goat is the fact that India have said they don’t want the money but the UK have insisted they take it!

Saw this interesting question posed on Yahoo Answers. "Would it be possible to dig a canal through the US/Mexico border from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico?" Well, that surely would fix the whole border problem, wouldn't it? I figure a canal would have walls on both sides with water in between..kind of like a moat. Staggering to think of how long it would take and how much it would cost! A project of that magnitude would surely create a lot of jobs, though...A LOT!