Posted on 09/28/2005 9:02:14 PM PDT by manny613
Interesting article!
Well,
"Dumbass Euro's. Clinton never had a majority in two elections. You said
They like him, so they choose to over-look that minor deatil.
Red6
VDH is one of the best.
Look Jorge what matters is that you are a little bit wrong. How many times have you been to Europe? Small countries you say, but still small independent countries. Then I can say the GDP of NAFTA.
Yes this is PPP. I just was in on a thread about military. The people there liked to use real GDP numbers instead of PPP because international trade. Most small countries trade much more per capita than bigger.
Look at the numbers Jorge:
HDI Rank Country Life expectancy at birth (years) (HDI)
2003 1
1 Norway 79.4
2 Iceland 80.7
3 Australia 80.3
4 Luxembourg 78.5
5 Canada 80.0
6 Sweden 80.2
7 Switzerland 80.5
8 Ireland 77.7
9 Belgium 78.9
10 United States 77.4
11 Japan 82.0
12 Netherlands 78.4
13 Finland 78.5
14 Denmark 77.2
15 United Kingdom 78.4
16 France 79.5
17 Austria 79.0
18 Italy 80.1
19 New Zealand 79.1
20 Germany 78.7
The health care system cant be that inferior.
In fact most of the '2000 year old european war history' that was quoted we have in common. There is no US history to be differentiated from the European history on that scale of time.
Under no circumstances I would try to take your lifestyle as a flaw or a cultural disability like some europeans do.
But you guys still use the double amount of fuel per head then we do - and we get places too.
I'd sure love to get around in a Humvee - but as things develope today I learn to love my ford mondeo 4 stroke diesel with 320 NM torque (8-9 secs to 55 mph) and 10 US cent for fuel per mile (if I converted correctly).
Did I mention we have no speed limits on many higways :)
Hmmm you handle statistics witout any care, don' you ?
What makes you derive that 'Every US citizen is spending way more on health care' from the average spendings ?
By saying so you would assume an equal distribution of health spendings even under coal mine workers and hollywood stars. Can that be correct ?
By the way - death rate among new born children per birth are 7 times higher in the US than in germany and you get 10 % less life expectation over there - altough you didn't loose that many men in WWII. Oh - and you get more calories per day - that sure is a sign of a better life style is it ;-)
Source of facts: www.weltinzahlen.de (sorry - not in engl.)
mine would be the netherlands - for society reasons.
I am not handling statistics without any care. Statistics shows a general trend and those numbers says a lot about efficiency.
Ich liebe in Norwegen und nichts in Die Vereinten Staaten. Verstehen Sie..
Ok. Ich komme aus Norwegen. Ich been mude.
Ich bin mude.
There you are. Just a bad day.
Society reasons ?
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