From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote:
>
> >Our GDP is about the same as Europe's, which uses a lot less energy.
>
> Does GDP measure services, especially the intellectual kind?
> Does GDP include all production that is used by the rest
> of the world?

If you consider all goods, services etc to be fungible ( which they seem to be )
then GDP must indeed include these things.

Graham

From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >unsettled wrote:
> >
> >> Also compare the availability of goods and services in Europe
> >> and other places in the world to ours.
> >
> >What !!!!
> >
> >Are you being funny ?
>
> No, he's not. There are a lot of Europeans who come to the US
> to shop.

Are you being funny ?

Graham

From: Eeyore on


unsettled wrote:

> Eeyore wrote:
> > unsettled wrote:
> >>MooseFET wrote:
> >>>unsettled wrote:
> >>
> >>>>Where there's national health insurance, which is universal
> >>>>in any given country, where does the money come from? From
> >>>>the unemployed, perhaps?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>It also comes from the employers but less money is required so the US
> >>>employers who provide health insurance are placed at a disadvantage.
> >>>In the US health care costs about 60% more than in Canada so US
> >>>employers are at a disadvantage to that degree.
> >>>
> >>>There is some compensating advantage in that in Canada, you have to
> >>>spend hugely on heating so your workers don't freeze to death on the
> >>>shop floor.
> >>
> >>I really love this. You actually think you're getting
> >>something for nothing.
> >
> >
> > No.
> >
> > It's less expensive the 'socialist' way.
>
> Hoodwinked. Bwahahahahahaha.
>
> Never.

It's a simple fact.

USA 2003 $1.7 trillion.
( $5666 per head of population )
http://www.kaiseredu.org/topics_im.asp?imID=1&parentID=61&id=358

UK NHS budget ?76.4 billion.
( ? 1273 per head of population )
http://www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/PressReleases/PressReleasesNotices/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4127292&chk=HDOR9C

And of course in the USA it's only those with health insurance who get proper
treatment.

Graham


From: Eeyore on


unsettled wrote:

> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>
> > In article <4546F871.E7AD0EB5(a)hotmail.com>,
> > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>unsettled wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Also compare the availability of goods and services in Europe
> >>>and other places in the world to ours.
> >>
> >>What !!!!
> >>
> >>Are you being funny ?
> >
> >
> > No, he's not. There are a lot of Europeans who come to the US
> > to shop.
>
> There have been many flights bringing Europeans to shop at
> the Mall of America in Minnesota.

Cite ?


> Straight in, shop all day,
> get back on the plane the same day and go back.

Sounds awful !

Graham


From: unsettled on
David Bostwick wrote:
> In article <5oshk217oi02qvuhp0g8vmbi3turugqrjg(a)4ax.com>, Jonathan Kirwan <jkirwan(a)easystreet.com> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:33:26 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>><snip>
>>>
>>>>>You can't keep attributions straight, neither can you keep
>>>>>the people you're talking to straight. I never refused to
>>>>>read the article. All your arguments are similarly confused.
>>>>
>>>> Saddam killed well over a million.
>>>
>>>Evidence, please.
>>>
>>>Eric Lucas
>>
>>It's just interesting that the argument is about who is worse, Saddam
>>or Bush. Maybe we can compare between Hitler and Bush, too?
>>
>>Note:
>>http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MOR20061029&art
>>icleId=3618
>>
>>Jon
>
>
> Godwin alert.

Misappropriated and misapplied.