I'll take the freedom, you can have ten years in a diaper that I don't want anyway.
-----Original Message----- From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 4:41 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Very interesting quiz >Wait a second, who ever called Sweden, Britain or Germany "evil socialist >countries"????? Yes, they may be more socialized than the US, but aren't >their primary system of economics still considered capitalistic? (with the >possible exception of Sweden, whose system I don't know much about) > >Also, your facts surprise me, I must admit. Do you really have numbers that >say German, British, and Swedish citizens have more wealth per capita than >Americans? The life span figure surprises me as well. > >I don't usually ask for sources, but I'd like to see what you've got here. Here's a pretty good life expectancy table: http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa042000b.htm women men United States 77.1 76.1 United Kingdom 77.7 77.2 Germany 77.4 77.0 (OK I was incorrect here, but I suspect its due to the recent incorporation of East Germany) France 78.8 78.5 Sweden 79.6 79.2 Norway 78.7 78.2 Canada 79.4 79.2 >From Wikipedia.org (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) The American life expectancy of 77.8 years at birth[159] is a year shorter than the overall figure in Western Europe, and three to four years lower than that of Norway and Switzerland.[160] Over the past two decades, the country's rank in life expectancy has dropped from 11th to 42nd place in the world.[161] The infant mortality rate of 6.37 per thousand likewise places the United States 42nd out of 221 countries, behind all of Western Europe.[162] Approximately one-third of the adult population is obese and an additional third is overweight;[163] the obesity rate, the highest in the industrialized world, has more than doubled in the last quarter-century.[164] Obesity-related type 2 diabetes is considered epidemic by healthcare professionals.[165] The U.S. adolescent pregnancy rate, 79.8 per 1,000 women, is nearly four times that of France and five times that of Germany.[166] Abortion, legal on demand, is a source of great political controversy. Many states ban public funding of the procedure and have laws to restrict late-term abortions, require parental notification for minors, and mandate a waiting period prior to treatment. Geographical access to abortion is limited: 87 percent of U.S. counties have no abortion provider.[167] Nonetheless, while the incidence of abortion is in decline, the U.S. abortion ratio of 241 per 1,000 live births and abortion rate of 15 per 1,000 women aged 15ââ¬â44 remain higher than those of most Western nations.[168] The income data is more complex, with the US ranging from very low (Mississippi) to fairly high (New Jersey). I'll have to get back to you on that one. > >-- >It was dark all around >there was frost on the ground >when the Tigers broke free. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:244000 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
