> [Chris] >> I see you are having fun here, but correct me if I'm wrong - is Platt >> really >> attacking the principle of balance in the market on the grounds of the US >> system? Because - Surprise Buddy! - balance isn't really the word to use >> there, and it hasn't been even close since Roosevelt's days I'd say. I >> suggest you study the Nordic Model, especially in the 60's and 70's, a >> model >> of balance if any, and a models that doesn't let some 10-16% of the >> population in a country live beneath the poverty line. It's a lucky thing >> you have got that American Dream that so easily fools people into >> thinking >> that it's OK for millions of people in the richest country in the world >> not >> to be able to feed and clothe their children or themselves. So when >> Platt >> says that ""balance" is out of whack by a ton. " I say - no f***ing shit? >> There never was balance. You have got the American Dream - climb to the >> top, >> make it on your own - so what if some people don't make it, starve to >> death >> or have to turn to crime to survive in their American Dream - it's >> liberty! >> Where is the Quality in that? The Human Quality?
> I don't know where you are getting your information about the U.S., but if > it's from the same source as the information your're getting about world > history, I think you have a problem. And didn't I read somewhere not long > ago that the average "poor" family in the U.S. has a higher family income > than the average middle class Swedish family? As I recall, the source was > a > Swedish government study. But, I could be wrong. No, you did not. You read that there is a higher median income in the US, something that really doesn't say anything about what I'm talking about. Here is just a wiki site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_US#Other_international_comparisons But it really isn't a controversial thing to point out that a lot of people in the US live in conditions fit for a third world country. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
