From: Eeyore on 1 Nov 2006 20:58 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 1 Nov 2006 20:59 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 1 Nov 2006 21:06 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 1 Nov 2006 21:10 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 1 Nov 2006 21:19
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. |