# Iceland # Norway # Australia # Canada # Ireland # Sweden # Switzerland # Japan # Netherlands # France # Finland # United States
Our life expectancy is a bit lower than most of those countries by a few years, but that can be due to a number of issues. Our net primary school enrollment rate is significantly lower than most modern countries (low 90%s), our poverty index is fairly high, our health expenditure per capita is almost double some of those other countries, we all know about how our public schools fare in comparison to others. Being #13 is still quite good and we have to spend more money on military than any other country, but the biggest places we're lagging behind are in health care and education, which are certainly fixable issues and those countries that are performing the best have moved away from privatization.
Interestingly enough, our CO2 emissions per capita is high and should be improved, but not substantially higher than Canada, Australia or Norway.
Oh, and our prison populations per capita are high as are homicide rates. I wouldn't pay much attention to the indexes since I just saw Japan ranks higher than us in their gender index, but the %s and rates are worth nothing.
even the US doesnt have a pure free market. Socialism isnt communism, its not a bad thing. And it varies based on the country. Socialism in Canada isnt the same as socailism in Finland.
and obama doesnt even mention socialism in the video you linked.
All he does is say that America needs to devote money to its infrastructure or it will lose business to China
On August 23 2008 07:24 shmay wrote: It was just a cute way to introduce the video, and again, I was just explaining the connection there.
Nobody's disturbed that he's advocating socialism?
1. There is no connection. You're just throwing out a red herring to dodge the real issue. 2. There's nothing wrong with socialism. Do you want to live in a purely capitalist society? No social security. No minimum wage. No government aid in case you're fucked. If you answer yes then you are under 18. And since when has he advocated socialism anyway?
# Iceland # Norway # Australia # Canada # Ireland # Sweden # Switzerland # Japan # Netherlands # France # Finland # United States
Our life expectancy is a bit lower than most of those countries by a few years, but that can be due to a number of issues. Our net primary school enrollment rate is significantly lower than most modern countries (low 90%s), our poverty index is fairly high, our health expenditure per capita is almost double some of those other countries, we all know about how our public schools fare in comparison to others. Being #13 is still quite good and we have to spend more money on military than any other country, but the biggest places we're lagging behind are in health care and education, which are certainly fixable issues and those countries that are performing the best have moved away from privatization.
Interestingly enough, our CO2 emissions per capita is high and should be improved, but not substantially higher than Canada, Australia or Norway.
Oh, and our prison populations per capita are high as are homicide rates. I wouldn't pay much attention to the indexes since I just saw Japan ranks higher than us in their gender index, but the %s and rates are worth nothing.
What are you implying as causality?
We could have free health care tomorrow and those numbers won't change.
i almost lost faith in the american people after they elected bush a SECOND time, but let's just wait and see how far they will go in their obvious idiocy... on the bright side though: the good thing about the americans compared to europeans is that they have a much less cynical view of the world and i think that might be what can save them. GO USA.
hmm i see i miscalculated, i thought the majority of younger supporters thought that he was a bad choice.
my reasons are that he looks like peter boyle, he's about as much status quo washingtonian as you can get, he voted for the iraq war. there's just absolutely nothing pleasing about the matchup to me except for his foreign policy cred. i'd be really surprised if he's the guy.
I'm really excited about the campaigning tactics these guy are gonna use. Its going to be very fascinating watching the best campaigns in the world competing to see who can convince the most of the rabble that they aren't fucking them.
I really love political rhetoric, its great entertainment at a real world scale.
yeah i see CNN is saying it's biden. i really really dislike this choice if this proves to be it.
Edit: hopefully i'll warm up to the guy
The official who spoke did so on condition of anonymity, saying they did not want to pre-empt a text-message announcement the Obama campaign promised for Saturday morning.
haha this statement makes no sense to me. how is making an anonymous leak not pre-empting the text-message announcement tomorrow morning??
While I wish we were talking about Handsome McBeardface right now, I think Biden is the best available candidate at playing the hitman role that some campaigns need.
On August 23 2008 15:32 NovaTheFeared wrote: Obama selected Biden, who said Obama wasn't ready to be president and that the presidency was no place for "on the job training"?
I can see the campaign commercials already.
Here's the kicker. If McCain picks Romney think of the counter commercials with what was said between those two. If he picks Liberman, well...
I know, Romney is the odds on favorite to be the VP pick and the negative primary could come back to bite. What is most interesting and entertaining to me as a political observer is seeing a well-run campaign. I hate watching candidates make fairly obvious and avoidable blunders like Romney/Biden for VP or not throwing Wright under the bus ASAP.
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