--On Thursday, April 05, 2007 14:45:51 +0200 uberspritzer@xxxxxxx wrote:
You have to be joking when you say the greatest threat to humanity is capitalism.no, i'm not joking; i mentioned the 100,000+ deaths caused every day (and forgot those deaths caused by civilization diseases like diabetes, cancer etc. that is caused by 'your lifestyle'), i mentioned wars, i mentioned killing the planet... so i don't see that capitalism is NOT a thread, the greatest thread, to humanity.
Well, no one can help it if you're ignorant.Estimates of dead from various totalitarian regimes are over a hundred million. China and Russia alone almost reach that figure. The worldwide figure for deaths under communist regimes from 1900 to 1987 is estimated at almost 170 million.
Japan - 3 to 10 million Cambodia - approximately 4 million Turkey - 3.5 to 4.3 million Vietnam - 3.8 million Poland - 1 million Pakistan - 1.5 million Yugoslavia - 1.7 million North Korea - 1.6 to 3.5 million Nazi Germany - 7 to 10 million Mexico - 1.4 to 3.3 million Russia - 52 million China - 35 millionIf you total all the war dead and every category of violence you can think of in every democratic country on earth, you can't even get close to those appalling numbers.
Furthermore, no democratic country has ever started a war with another democratic country. (That's as in zero.) The majority of wars are begun between two non-democratic countries, and democratic countries have the lowest incidence of foreign and domestic violence of any form of government. (And yes, that includes the US.)
The fact is that if all countries in the world would adopt democracy, there would be no more wars.
Wow. I am so impressed. US is 6.43 and Cuba is 6.22. Statistically insignificant and, without context, meaningless.- Cuba has a much lower infant mortality than the US;
Both are less than 1/10th of the rates in a lot of the garden spots of the world that so many liberals admire.
Estimates of uninsured in the US (not including illegal immigrants) are in the range of 20 million. That's about 7% of the population. Meanwhile, in the paradise of Cuba, they don't have chlorinated water, they live in dilapidated and deteriorating housing (except for the chosen few, of course), and sanitaton is almost non-existent.- Cuba has an overall much better health care than the US (who in the US is able to pay for health insurance? not that many people!)
Cuba uses a two-tier system for healthcare. Good stuff for the party members (and for viewing by the gullible) and not-so-good stuff for the hoi polloi. Cuba spends 1.5% of its overal foreign purchases on medical imports compared to 5 times that amount for the Dominican Republic.
The statement that Cuba's healthcare system is first rate reveals a profound ignorance of the actual conditions in Cuba. But if you think it's so wonderful, perhaps you'll move there to take advantage of it.
Cuba's literacy rate is 96.9. The US is 99.9. Statistically insignificant, but nice try.- Cuba has a much better educational system and a MUCH LOWER NUMBER of illiterates than the US
Probably what irks you is that we can afford both B-2's *and* wide screen tvs, tanks *and* BMWs, fighter jets *and* Gulfstreams.so, what of that gigantic amount of money goes to the people? nothing! it's used to buy B-2 bombers and pay Halliburton.
The rest of your tripe isn't even worth responding to. Paul Schmehl (pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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