Nathan Saper writes:
In a recent WHO study, the U.S. was ranked (IIRC) 15th in the world for healthcare (factoring in quality, availability, etc). This was behind many socialized healthcare countries, such as Canada.
Did it ever occur to you that WHO might have an agenda of its own that its rankings are intended to advance?
This assumes that wealth will be achieved by everyone. This is simply not true. Look at America. The rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer.
That's bullshit. "Liberals" in this country like to bitch and moan about the suffering of the poor and how stingy the rest of us are, even while most of the so-called poor have cell phones hanging on their belts. The poor aren't getting poorer, their expectations are simply getting higher. How many "poor" homes don't have a color TV and a VCR? To the extent that there are things they are "forced" to do without, it largely reflects their own personal choices and/or their lack of ambition. The few that can really be called poor in this country are the homeless, most of whom are either mentally disturbed or simply ambitionless addicts and alcoholics (or both). - GH _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.