Standard of living in UK better than in USA

Telegraph ^ | 1/7/2008 | Lucy Cockcroft

[fweingart]

...if you had a clue about economics rather than a brain made of sponge and saturated by the anti-American media....

Hey big shot! Why the insults?

I, too, read IBD and here I merely post an article from the Telegraph.

Go insult someone else who shares your level of intelligence.

[fweingart]

Ah social darwinism at its best. You're definitely on the right website.

Being incapable of understanding sarcasm is not a gift.

[vaudine]

Their health care is mentioned. Frankly, with the conditioin of their hospitals, I don't think it is better.

vaudine

[reg45]

... and only a few hundred people got killed in buses and the underground as opposed to the thousands killed in the twin towers and the Pentagon.

[vaudine]

LOL! Exactly!

vaudine

[Larry Lucido]

Really. By that logic, I could come up with criteria showing that Cuba has a higher standard of living than the U.S.

[been_lurking]

Price check: I had a tooth whipped out for about 120 dollars? I imagine it would have been cheaper in America?

Hard to say. Under normal American dental care (for an adult), all efforts are made to save the tooth. Removing the adult tooth is an action of "last resort".

Did your $120 dollars include replacement with an artificial tooth or partial denture?

[longtermmemmory]

been there, don’t thinks so.

UNLESS the standard is to maximize dependence on government, totalitarian political correctness, and a lack of individual rights (ie draconian gun control laws)

[longtermmemmory]

(s) but but if a news paper reporter has it in paper print, it must be true!!!(/s)

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Free healthcare huh? So Doctors work for free, hospitals are built for free, and medicine is free? That’s really amazing!!!!!!!!!!! (/sarcasm)

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Who are you to point out the inconsistencies?

[KC_Conspirator]

The only reason for this false report is to equate this with "free healthcare".

The US has more people immigrate here than any other place; that should tell you a lot about the standard of living here.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

You only think that you’re taxed through your nose.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

It’s about double the cost of the U.S. So, if a #3 meal is $6 here, it is around $12 there. Of course, London, like NYC, is very expensive due in part to the fact that it is a major city.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

So Cal is some of the highest real estate around.

[Vet_6780]

the average American can buy more.

Not with a declining dollar, we can't

[Winniesboy]

Not quite sure what you mean by 'over-air' programmes.If you mean stations broadcasting in the traditional way through terrestrial transmitters (as distinct from satellite or cable), then in radio BBC stations are outnumbered by the many samll local commercial stations; while of the five terrestrial TV channels, three are commercial. While it's true that the BBC's income derives from legislation, this is not through an annual budget decision. Indeed the only point at which government exercises any real power over the BBC is when the legislation governing the Royal Charter (and with it the licence fee) is due for renewal, and this only happens every ten years. It's only in the period leading up to that when the BBC takes much notice of whay government thinks of it. At other times the BBC sooner or later falls out with every government, of whatever party, over questions of 'balance' etc. Royal commissions are regularly appointed to review the whole system, with noises being made about radical change: but in the end the ususal verdict is that it's the worst possible system except all the alrenatives. As it happens, the recent Charter renewal was more radical than most.

[mewzilla]

I love articles that refute their own headlines.

Puts me in mind of a quote from a famous Brit...

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Hey big shot! Why the insults?"

In the post to which I replied, you stated: "Who do we thank for our sticky economy and descending dollar? The entire elite political class: the liberal pansies we send to Washington to rule us and destroy our economy!"

It is reasonable to assume from the above that you have swallowed the economic tripe spewed by the media, especially regarding the "descending" dollar (why not call it the "increasingly aggressive dollar which has injected competitiveness into American manufacturing that hasn't been seen for more than a decade"?). I do grant you're correct that the enemies of our economy are the free-spending liberals... one doesn't learn that from the media! My apologies for my knee-jerk response, but I hope you share my frustration at the DemocRats' and the press' efforts to talk the economy down.

[trisham]

What’s the location?