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WorldNetDaily ^ | April 16, 2004 | Ilana Mercer

[XBob]

16 - "Clue to you -- Cost of Living and Purchasing Power Parity are two different things."

Ah, so you admit that the numbers you are spouting are bogus, and that your numbers are meaningless when trying to determine how long an individual in various countries has to work to live at the same standard.

[XBob]

Tell me, where are skyscrapers popping up like mushrooms in this country?

[XBob]

Where in this country are we building new car factory?

[XBob]

Where in this country are we building new steel mills?

[XBob]

Where in this country are we building new petro-chemical plants?

[XBob]

Where in this country are we opening new factories all over the place? Or any place for that matter. All I hear about is shutting down factories.

[FreeReign]

16 - "Clue to you -- Cost of Living and Purchasing Power Parity are two different things."

Ah, so you admit that the numbers you are spouting are bogus, and that your numbers are meaningless when trying to determine how long an individual in various countries has to work to live at the same standard.

No, GDP, PPP adjusted is right on target. Your example of the $10 apartment is bogus. All relative to determining economic strength of a country.

[FreeReign]

Your posts 122 to 126 -- Nice spouting!

[techwench]

THIS is the problem! People will hire YOU over me any day because you have an "education." As dumbed down as educations are today and the fact that I learned in fourth grade what your colleagues now learn after four years of college.

NO H.R. person will even take that into consideration!!!!

[The Red Zone]

The most successful people will be those that repair things with their hands. You can't outsource that.

Assuming that China doesn't make them so cheap that you just pitch the "thing" and buy a new one.

[The Red Zone]

Quality of life is not about just income, but also cost of living. If we merely artificially jack up prices on *all* consumers to support higher wages... who are we fooling?

Prices weren't so horrid a few decades ago when the US was cranking out most of the stuff on store shelves, rather than a tiny minority of it as nowadays. What happened?

[Porterville]

Ah, you want the government to subsidize jobs but not student loans.... ignorant to say the least....

[Porterville]

You are by definition a communist if you think the government should subsidize jobs... better a leech on low interest loans than a socialist-red.

[sarcasm]

Glad to see you admit that you are a leech.

[VOA]

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[sarcasm]

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[XBob]

Wow - you keep trotting off on a different direction, arguing with the wrong figures.

read my post:

"Ah, so you admit that the numbers you are spouting are bogus, and that your numbers are meaningless when trying to determine how long an individual in various countries has to work to live at the same standard."

And I suppose that exporting our education and high tech, high paying jobs and going to repair jobs and giving each other massages is the way to go to give us economic power?

This purchasing power parity is screwed up, and doesn't reflect the true costs for a similar standard of living.

For example, here in the US, you can't have a decent standard of living in Houston and most of the US without the expense of a car. Mass transit is mostly abominable or non-existant. However, in NYC, living without a car is quite feasible, and is in general, an unnecessary expense and burden.

As another example, I spent some lovely time living in a small tropical paradise of a village in a small fishing village in (CENSORED - i don't want to spoil it). Everyone was generally very happy and had a fine life, with an average annual income of about $100-$200. No cars, no necessity for cars, in fact, there were not even any roads. To get in and out you either had to take a small boat or climb on a single file path over a small mountain. No air conditioning either, but it was not needed, nor was heat. Food was at the home, the fish trap on the beach, the rice paddy, the chickens and pigs running around, and on the coconut trees. Lobsters were readily available, if you would dive for them, or could be bought for 25 cents where the fishing boats tied up to bring in their catch.

When I sadly had to leave, I thought to myself, Who's rich? Me, the 'rich American' or these 'poverty stricken' people.

Go personally to some of these 3rd world countries, learn the language, and live with the people and see just how accurate this PPP is.

[Toddsterpatriot]

I'd ignore XBob's argument, he has a very poor understanding of mathematics.

[XBob]

132 - "Ah, you want the government to subsidize jobs but not student loans.... ignorant to say the least...."

Ah, boy, what are they teaching you in that school, certainly not how to think.

I was, in fact arguing for 'protecting' jobs. I never took out a student loan for my college. However, since you brought it up, and most of those schools are government schools (which I helped pay for), and you want to compete with China, I have come up with a perfect solution for yu, how about, if we tax payers reduce the teachers and professor's salaries to $100 per month, so they can compete with the Chinese teachers, and you won't need any loans.

Then you can afford to go to school, anywhere you want. (Peking U, anyone?).

[XBob]

He's right, ToddsNoMathametician, seems to feel you can add apples and oranges and get peaches.

He also seems to think that $100 is 400% of $20, rather than 500%.