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To: Brian Griffin
Russians eat a comparable amount of food and get a comparable amount of education and health care.

It is not even close.

I have a close friend who was a missionary in Russia for several years. During a University class, there was a field trip, and he bought some meat to cook for the class. The Russian teacher told him it was the first meat she had eaten in years, because it was too expensive.

The Russian health care system is a joke. It is one of the reasons their life expectancy is five years lower than people in the United States.

The US is far from perfect, but we are a society where the poor people are fat.

15 posted on 05/13/2022 5:34:58 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Our poor people are fat because they eat junk food.

I was in Paris and did not see obese people. In the Louvre, when I saw fat people I waited for them say some English. One time I heard some German.

The French eat well.


18 posted on 05/13/2022 6:01:31 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: marktwain

I can’t say I’ve eaten any $6.48/pound hamburger recently.

The last meat I ate was ham in some pea soup about a week ago.

I was last treated by a medical doctor about twenty years ago.


21 posted on 05/13/2022 6:10:50 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: marktwain

I have a friend who used to live on Capitol Hill.

About twenty years ago his friends had a party and had a loaf of brown bread bought off a Ukrainian woman living in DC who baked brown bread at $7 a large loaf to earn extra money. It was superb bread.


22 posted on 05/13/2022 6:17:16 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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