Blair/Hitler comparison
Excerpts from A. Srraf's article on hypcracy and western democracy. Alquds newspaper, London. Sarraf is an Iraqi intellectual (probably with maoist inclination) (Unlike the pro soviet communist, the maoist faction of the Iraqi left joined the regime in its fight against the US.) Excerpts: Blair/Hitler comparison. blair defied his own and world public opinion. Blair has kids, Hitler did not, therefore, Blair is worst than Hitler for he knows what it is like for a parent to see his child die before his own eyes, or to kill or scare a million child in Baghdad with his bombs. Will he allow one hundred cats and dogs to be scared in the streets of London. From a purely humanistic optic Blair is worst than hitler. But what is even worst than that is Blairs belief that he owns a sort of truth (this religion of democracy) that allows him to kill innocent civilians, this makes him nastier than Bin Lade. Blairs terrorism is at the state level, it is all encompassing and far more brutal than binlades. The bombs falling on Baghdad are unraveling the foundation of hypocritical western democracy.Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop!
Comparison of Canadian Health Expenditures with rest world
CMAJ 1999 Jun 15;160(12):1730-4; Canadian health expenditures: where do we really stand internationally? Deber R, Swan B. Department of Health Administration, University of Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are different ways to measure how much Canada spends on health care and the quality of these measurements may vary. This paper examines Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development data for 3 common standards of measure: health expenditures as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP), nominal spending per capita (US dollars) and spending per capita in purchasing power parities (PPP) equivalents. In 1994, the most recent year for which there were firm data. Canada spent 9.9% of its GDP on health care (rank 3 of 29), and $1999 PPPs per capita (rank 3). However, actual spending was only US$1824 per capita (rank 14). In the same year Japan spent 7% of GDP on health care (rank 22), $1478 in PPPs per capita (rank 16), but actually spent US$2614 per capita (rank 3). Although each measure is suitable for some policy purposes, Canadian spending remains modest by international standards. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10410638&dopt=Abstract
Re: cost comparison
Do they figure in "security costs?" The NYTs did a piece about crime in Mexico and S. Africa on this topic. Seems that CEOs should take care (i.e. have an army to protect them). jason
Re: comparison
Does anyone have any comments on the idea that superior Japanese and German, economic performance in so called high value added production vis a vis the UK and US is due to more advanced "skills formation systems", as David Ashton and Francis Green put it in *Education, Training and the Global Economy*. My intuitive response to the skills craze is skepticism towards emphasis on the supply side of skills. As already suggested, due to the exigencies of greater non-price competition and the greater possibility of extra surplus value in the producer goods industry there may be a greater need and demand for skilled labor to contrive superior machines to meet the needs of sophisticated buyers. But the more important question centers on the determinants of the demand for new producer goods both domestically and abroad, i.e., the real rate of accumulation in fixed capital (not that proxy of "investment" as it shows up in national accounts). Because capital accumulation is indeed the enlarged reproduction of the means of production, upswings and decline are first and foremost noticeable in the manufacture of production goods, as Paul Mattick noted. At any rate, I think Michael's excerpt is quite important in getting beyond the craze of the skills shortage or the lack of a good skills formation system as the root cause of Anglo-Saxon capitalism's productive weakness, such as it is, vis a vis rivals. Best, Rakesh
cost comparison
Apropos the recent discussion of US vs. European "competitiveness," here's an interesting table from the Economist Intelligence Unit - their estimates of the costs of doing business for multinationals in various countries. Unsurprisingly, Germany is #1 - but perhaps surpisingly, the US is #2. The UK is more expensive than Sweden. I guess production wages aren't the only story. Components of the estimates include wage costs (including executive salaries), business travel, teaxes, rents, telecoms, and transport. For some unexplained reason, Japan isn't included. Doug BUSINESS COSTS COMPARISONS Economist Intelligence Unit estimates Germany100.0 US 91.8 Belgium 89.4 UK 81.4 France 79.5 Netherlands 74.2 Sweden 68.6 Australia 65.4 Italy 64.9 Singapore 59.0 Canada 58.5 Argentina 54.1 Spain 52.9 Brazil 52.3 Mexico 50.2 Hong Kong 48.8 Russia 47.3 Poland 25.1 India 22.1 Czech Rep 20.5 Chile 19.0 China 10.4 Thailand 5.6 Hungary 2.2 Malaysia 1.7 Indonesia1.6 South Africa 1.0
Re: cost comparison
> BUSINESS COSTS COMPARISONS > Economist Intelligence Unit estimates > > Germany100.0 > US 91.8 > Belgium 89.4 . > Hungary 2.2 > Malaysia 1.7The figures for Hungary and South Africa > Indonesia1.6seem completely off the wall, Doug. > South Africa 1.0Can you, or anyone else, make sense of them? valis
[PEN-L:1576] Re: help on comparison of wages, etc (fwd)
> The best source for statistical data in Canada is Statistics Canada (federal > agency). The web site is: > > http://www.statcan.ca/start.html > > They publish a daily issue and you can also search back issues. I'll forward > more sites later >
[PEN-L:5401] Re: deficit comparison numbers?
At 4:47 PM 6/8/95, Bill Briggs wrote: >I'm looking for the actual numbers >that all the nifty percentage statistical games are played with. > >I have found this >1993 [in billions] for USA. >outlay 1142 >receipts842 > >question 1. >where would I find similar numbers for the major developed nations? > >question 2. >what would the receipts be if the Social Security / highway [?] reserves >were deducted? > >thanks The best place is the OECD's twice-yearly Economic Outlook. Doug -- Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax
[PEN-L:5385] deficit comparison numbers?
I'm looking for the actual numbers that all the nifty percentage statistical games are played with. I have found this 1993 [in billions] for USA. outlay 1142 receipts842 question 1. where would I find similar numbers for the major developed nations? question 2. what would the receipts be if the Social Security / highway [?] reserves were deducted? thanks Nat. Ass. of Letter CarriersBill Briggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] unionists subscribe publabor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
